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The massacre in village Prebilovci in August 6,1941 is one of the most violent crimes in the history of mankind. The Ustasha units under the command of the criminal killed more than 800 Serbian civilians in the beginning of August 1941, most of them children under the age of 14. Ivan Jovanovic, nickname - Crni (Black) (1902-1958) Ivan Jovanovic -Jakovljev His name is among about 1600 Ustasha Catholics of the dead "for Croatian freedom" at a monument in Capljina, erected in 2002 A semi-educated peasant, a Ustasha cavalryman, a torturer and a mass murderer, a monster from the Šurmanci in the Catholic parish of Medjugorje, the main killer of the breastmilk mothers and their children and thousands of other Serbs, ended the Second World War as Titov's partisan in the Žumberak Brigade! She entered her in May 1945 after being captured at Celje and remained demobilized on July 3, 1945! Ivan Jovanovic referred to this fact from his biography on 4 October 1956, to investigator Ahmet Aleckovic, as a defendant in the Mostar Investigation Department of the State Secretariat for Internal Affairs of BiH (Minutes 463/56). Ivan Jovanović was born in 1902, in Šurmanci, in the region of Mostar, from father Jakov and mother Luce r. Karačić. He was married and his father was a ninety-year-old. The Ustashas were locked from 1940, and in the war was the Ustasha head of the village of Surmanci. He participated in the attack on Yugoslav soldiers in Capljina and the first Ustasha crimes in April 1941. With his brother Ludvig Jovanovic and Andrija Buljan from the neighboring Dretelj, a pathological killer, which some Ustashas were terrorizing, also "a fighter for Croatian freedom", named after a monument in Capljina, according to the directive or according to the consent of the Ustashi peak, organized a checkpoint the liquidation of Serbs in their village, which operated in July and August 1941. According to the witnesses from the Šurmanci, about 2,000 Serbs were killed there. In just one day on August 6, 1941, Ustashas captured 500 women and children from village Prebilovci and abducted them living in the Golubnik cave, near the village of Shurmanac, near Chapljina, in the south of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the elementary school that existed in village Prebilovci, a large number of children were slaughtered by the Ustashas and their hoses were hung around the school, and their heads were placed on school benches. About all these horrors, Alexander Luzano, an Italian military intelligence officer, reported to the command in Italy. Holy Martyr Stana Arnaut-Teacher in Prebilovci village, August 1941 It is canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church, along with other Prelate martyrs Only in November 1990, the excavation of those 13 pits, which contained bones of about 4,000 Serbian corpses, were buried on August 4, 1991 in front of the Temple of the Serbian Saints in Prelibovci-Church of the Resurrection of Christ RECORDS SHOOTED YUGOSLAVIA The records of the removal of the bones from the pit around Prebilovci shocked the then Yugoslavia. Muslim and Croatian politicians have criticized Serbs from the Neretva Valley that they are extreme nationalists because they wanted to dignify their dead deadly. On the underpass under which trucks were passing full of children's sketches overnight appeared an evil and cynical inscription "come again". Nevertheless, the Serbs from the left bank of the Neretva did not believe it could be repeated in 1941, but the evil had returned in the 1990s. - Janko Bobetko, the general of the Croatian army and the commander of ethnic cleansing in 1992, wrote in his memoirs the poem of his soldiers: "The villagers cross the village with a bad voice, now you wild boar pig." This boredom is disastrous. However, the Prebilovci live. Thirty families returned, they do not leave their world. They believe that the one who sells any one of them will be cursed, "says Yahura.

The massacre in Prebilovci was carried out by the Ustashas between 6 and 11 August 1941 under the command of Ivan Jovanović called Crni, over 826 out of a total of 994 Serbs in the village of Prebilovci, mostly women, children and the elderly. Most were thrown alive into the Golubinka pit, while the others were killed on the spot. Fifty-four Serb households from Prebilovac were extinguished forever by that massacre.

The place where Serb civilians were killed. It's hard to be there and not shed a tear.

Only in 1990, before the fiftieth anniversary of the suffering in the Independent State of Croatia, the Serbian people began to remove the concrete armor from the Herzegovinian pits, which was installed by the Tito government in the early 1960s, in order to cover up the Ustasha crimes. The bones of about 4,000 Serbs who died in the Ustasha pogroms from 1941 to 1945 were taken out of the pits. On November 24, 1990, in Prebilovci, skeletal remains taken from the Golubinka Cave and several other pits were transferred in front of the school. Opelo was then served by Metropolitan Dabrobosanski and Bishop of Zahumlje-Herzegovina, the Most Reverend Vladislav. Then, academician Milorad Ekmecic, who was born in Prebilovci, held a speech in which he said, among other things: "Don't call this savagery! Because by doing so, you will offend all the real savages in the Amazon. There they are still slaughtered and exterminated, but it is not recorded that they violated the golden rule of life: not to kill women and children, because they are a source of renewal and survival. We cannot forget, and we do not want revenge. Revenge for a crime is as much a human sin as it is. " In the pits, under the pile of stones that the Ustashas pushed after the victims, they were found next to the skeletons and objects of the victims with evidence of torture and cruelty of the executioners: barbed wire, chains with padlocks, nails, etc. In Kapavica, at the bottom of the pit, the remains of the priest Dušan Manastirlić were identified, who was the first to be pushed at the head of a series of bound Serbs, with an Ustasha grin: "Come on, priest, take the Serbs to the church." When the bones of the martyrs were taken out, washed and transferred to Prebilovci in the fall of 1990, it happened that Tripko Ekmecic recognized the chain of his wife, who was killed in the second month of pregnancy, among the bones. They say that his heart broke immediately, so Grandpa Tripko is considered a "subsequent" victim of Ustasha terror. On August 4, 1991, just before the war began, Serbs from Prebilovac and other parts of Herzegovina buried the bones of about 4,000 of their ancestors from concrete pits, near Our Lady of Medjugorje, and buried them in the crypt of the memorial church in Prebilovac. His Holiness Patriarch Pavle acted, with the service of Bishops Irinej (Bulović) and Atanasij (Jevtić), and the clergy. The foundations of the church and the crypt were consecrated, and the relics of the martyrs were, after the Liturgy and the Mass, laid in a large marble life in the crypt. This touching event was attended by about 10,000 Serbs, mostly from Herzegovina, but also from other Serbian regions: Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. Then the blessedly deceased Serbian Patriarch Pavle said over the bones of the martyrs this: “If, by any trouble, you have to choose, to push others into the pit, or to be pushed into it, it is better for you to be pushed into the pit, than to you push others. " In a text published in the newspaper of the Serbian Patriarchate "Orthodoxy", Mile Prebilovic wrote: considers it incitement to war, which provoked civil and religious wars in the former Yugoslavia !? According to them, he is a relative of the Ustasha victims, who died in 1990/91. opened pits and took out of them, and then buried the bones of martyrs with dignity, encouraged all Balkan nationalisms that later led to the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia !? So the bones should have been forgotten in the pits, as the Ustashas determined !? " These events revealed the hitherto hidden or obscured truth about the terrible suffering of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia, the reconstruction of which many were preparing at the time. The bones from the pits warned that such plans would be not only unjust but also dangerous.