Thanks for the blinding flash of the obvious. I assumed everyone on this thread would realize that not many Bosnians, be they Serb,Muslim, or Croat, speak English as a first language, and would therefore understand that the term I used was a translation. Sorry if the quotation marks caused any confusion.
I had a pool of about 12 interpreters (the numbers fluctuated due to personnel changes, etc). They were fairly evenly split between Muslims and Serbs, although I did have one Croat.
I don't speak Serbo-Croatian, and never claimed to, but that particular term came up many times in conversations with locals in the Kravica/Glogova area.
The main question is still unaddressed: Who shot up the warehouse in Kravica?
Also, is there a pic on the web of the warehouse on the web anywhere?
What if it was a place, during the war, that ambushers used? What were the dimensions - length, width, and height? Naser Oric and his soldiers raided Kravica several times didn't they? What if they kidnapped Serb villagers and killed them and their livestock there?
That's a tough question. I suppose it could be a combination of both Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Muslims that shot up the warehouse, or it could be one side or the other. It could also be a lunatic from either faction that was loaded up with too much plumb brandy and had too much extra amunition, or it could be the location of a very nasty slaughter. It all depends on who held the area and when and for how long.
I was in Vukovar in 1995 and that warehouse looks like every single building in Vukovar regardless of it was a Croat house, Catholic church, Serb house or Orthodox church.
A building riddled with bullet holes in the former Yugoslavia tells me nothing.
If it was a slaughter and the time was taken to remove the bodies, why not burn down the warehouse? Haven't any of those people seen "Pretty Village Pretty Flame"?