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

MASSACRES OF CIVILIANS 59

Tomania Kulesitch, aged 45, of Prmnjavor, deposes that outside the house of Milan Milutinovitch the Austrians led up women and children, killed them, and then burnt the bodies by throwing them into a burning house next door. It was estimated that in this way about one hundred were killed and burnt afterwards.

In the course of his inspection of the spot the undersigned identified blood-splashes on such of the walls of the house as were left standing, also numerous traces of bullets. Finally, among the ruins of the burnt house, the undersigned identified numerous charred human remains. Previous to this inspection the inhabitants had already buried the largest fragments of corpses protruding from the rubbish. All the villagers from the vicinity of the house have been killed.

This account of Tomania Kulesitch is confirmed by the depositions of other inhabitants of Prnjavor, whose names I subjoin, viz. : Leposava Peitchinovitch, Savka Kulesitch, Leposaoa Kulesitch, Ivana Kulesitch, Milka Petrovitch, Maria Maritch, Yanko Kulesitch.

The undersigned moreover had the pit opened in which the bones, ete., of the vietims had been buried, and verified the presence of very numerous human remains.

T'chokeshina Philip Dobrosavljevitch, aged 39, assistant judge to the Mayor of Tchokeshina, declares that 32 civilians had been killed, including three women (one old woman and two young girls of 16 to 18