Rukija Bejtović

In memoriam

On December 23, 1996, Rukija Bejtović was murdered in her apartment in Ante Zuanić street number 23 in the western part of Mostar. Her body was dumped next to the M17 highway near Kočine. It was found on January 6, 1997. The criminal complaint against the unknown killers was filed on January 20, 1997. The last time her family saw Rukija Bejtovic alive, the frail old woman was settling in for an evening of television. Within the next two hours, men kicked in the door of her first-floor apartment, where she lived alone. They tore her from her bed and roughed her up, autopsy and police reports would later indicate, then wrapped her in sheets and hauled her away into the winter night. The night after Bejtovic disappeared, a Bosnian Croat soldier calmly moved into her apartment. And Bosnian Croat police refused to investigate, according to Robert Edwards, the retired California detective who handled U.N. monitoring of the case. "When they find out the father's name"--that is, learn a person's ethnicity--"that terminates the investigation," he said.

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