Petrit Latifi
Srpska mučenja Hrvata 1930-ih. U članku pod naslovom “Moderne Inquisitoren” objavljenom u novinama “National-Zeitung und Landwirt” u svibnju 1930., možemo čitati o srbijanskim jugoslavenskim vlastima koje su mučile stotine Hrvata i Hrvata koji su se obratili Ligi naroda.
In an article titled “Moderne Inquisitoren” published in the newspaper “National-Zeitung und Landwirt” on May, 1930, we can read of Serbian Yugoslav authorities torturing hundreds of Croatians and Croatia appealing to the League of Nations.
“On several occasions , revelations about the horrific events during the trials of the Croatian peasant leaders in the Zagreb police prison have leaked out ; Publicity : An eyewitness, Slaokos Cihlar, former editor of the Zagreb newspaper Hroat, who now lives abroad , has now provided further details to the Zagreb Daily News. He writes:
“These days, the whole world has been talking about police torture under the Yugoslav dictatorship. The statement made by the defendant Bernarditsch during the trial against Dr. Matschek and his fellow defendants has filled the whole world with outrage. But everything that has come to light so far in the Zagreb trial gives only a vague picture of the outrageous crimes committed by the police of the dictatorship from the beginning of 1929 until today.
He was arrested in Zagreb in the spring of 1929 along with several hundred other Croats . These police convictions were linked to political prisoners . lingen overcrowded With mein the cell was also! Vernarditsch, who has now made the famous statements in the Belgrade Trial . Severely tubercular people lay on concrete , and the police doctor Dr. Farliafch , who, ironically , is a member of an international congress for hygiene , refused medical help to the seriously ill people.
If they are sick , let them die , was the answer of this police doctor. But all this harassment of the prisoners was nothing compared to other events . We often woke up from our sleep at night , awakened by heart – rending screams of pain that reached us from afar . These screams reached us from the torture chamber , where the detectives and police tortured the political prisoners . The torture was regularly carried out in the presence of the police chief Bedekowic , in particularly secluded damped rooms.”
Serbian chiefs ordering the muder of Croat prisoners
“One such room is located on the second, and another on the third floor of the police building in Zagreb. The murder of prisoners takes place in the basement . The police basement was the final stage of the suffering of many tortured victims. Various torture systems exist . From burning candles under the heels to twisting and breaking arms and fingers , there is a whole range of bestial methods.
During the torture, a gramophone plays funny songs to drown out the cries for help of the tortured . In a collective cell was a weak 15-year-old boy , almost a child , named Franz Tausch . He was once taken away at night for interrogation . From the little Tausch, who had needles inserted under his fingers and whose arms had been dislocated, they demanded a confession that members of the Croatian Peasant Party had organized an assassination attempt.
Later , Franz Tausch was released from Hals prison innocent , but the torture continued with increased brutality . At that time, Hetschimowitsch , Djakowitz, and Krndel were also arrested . They were subjected to horrific torture : nails were driven into their bodies . Hetschimowitsch and Djakowitz were later executed near Marburg (Slovenia.
In the police prison in Zagreb there is a cell called the death cell. When a prisoner is brought to this cell , it means that he has been sentenced to death by the police . The girl on the occasion of Butorac was also in this cell . She was tortured by starvation , so that other prisoners secretly provided her with food . Later, she was murdered on the orders of the police chief.
The merchant Stefan Iawor, 53 years old, father of two children, was brutally tortured on November 1, 1929, in the presence of the police chief Bedekowitfch . In the following days, he was murdered in the presence of the com-He was further tortured by the clients of the police station, Boshko Panlelmitcin, and policeman Narancic.
Once , they tied his hands and hung him in his cell . He remained in this position for a whole day . When he refused to make the requested confession , the torture continued . For weeks , he was brought for interrogation on a stretcher . His whole body was black with blood . On January 27 , 1930 , Jawor was finally handed over to court , but his wounds had not yet healed .
His wife, Ida Jawor, who was also arrested and personally saw her tortured husband , filed a complaint with the Zagreb court on November 19, 1929 , after her release , under No. I. 775-2-29 , alleging police brutality . But the court took no action , since there is no judicial independence under the dictatorship today . The former Colonel Begic was also horribly sentenced , and Marko Hranilovic was not Police Chief Beidepowitsch and the local commandant of Zagreb , General Vielimarkoc, were beaten personally.
Finally, a gendarme in the police chief’s office thrust a bayonet into his chest. All confessions of those arrested in the Zagreb police prison were extracted through torture . In response to the protests of the lawyers Dr. JPMnar and Dr. Mintas , the chief of the political police in Zagreb, Cvjetko Hinr1oat, replied : We have to beat them (the prisoners) , otherwise we wo n’t learn anything . I don’t beat them myself ; others are there for that.
The cases I have cited here represent only a small part of the atrocities committed by the Serbian dictatorship in Croatia . The Croats, who were accused completely innocently in Belgrade , were brutally tortured in prison . Now they stand before the court that pronounces death sentences without appeal . They must be saved from the executioners of Bselgrad , because they were innocently arrested, innocently tortured, innocently brought before the special tribunal – guilty only because; they are Croats !
Their case is the case! of hundreds and hundreds of innocent under the Croats have already appealed to the League of Nations for help . Nothing has happened so far. Whether anything will happen is questionable , since the League of Nations, as we know from experience , does not like to burn its fingers on such internal political disputes”.
Reference
Balkan Academia 