The Kingdom of serbia : report upon the atrocities committed by the Austro-Hungarian Army during the first invasion of Serbia

106 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ATROCITIES

No. 18

Corporal Randjel Stamenkovitch, of the 2nd Company, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, declares in an official report, dated August 9/22nd, that on the road 10 km. south-west of the village of Yarebitze, he saw the bodies of 2 boys (aged about 15), 3 women (aged about 40), 2 young girls (aged about 18), and 11 men (aged about 50), who had been killed by the Austrians. The bodies were all tied together by the hands and thrown in a heap.

No. 14

Corporal Stanimir Stevitch, of the 4th Company, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regt. of the 1st levy, declares in an official report dated Aug. 9/22nd, that on August 7/20, in the vicinity of the village of Sipulja, he came upon the bodies of 3 boys under 10, 2 boys aged 12 and 14, and 2 young girls under 20, all 7 roped together and bayoneted.

No. 15

Second-Lieutenant Radivoie Milovanovitch, Second in Command of the 1st Coy., 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, reports under date of August 9/22nd, that on August 7/20 he saw, in the village of Sipulja, the body of an old man whom the Austrians had killed and mutilated. He found the daughters-in-law of the dead man weeping beside the corpse. The peasants of Sipulja and Dwoorska complained that the Austrians had carried off almost the entire non-combatant population, and especially all males over 14 years of age.

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