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

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first wounded, and the great extent of the spots seems to indicate that these wounds were produced with great force, causing the blood to spurt out to a comparatively great distance. The calcined bones prove that the bodies, alive or dead, were subsequently burnt.

From there I proceeded to the house of Milan Milutinovitch. Beside the ruins of this house there is another one of which nothing but the four walls are left standing. On these walls I observed a considerable number of splashes of blood and the marks of rifle bullets. Among the rubbish in the ruins of the house of Milutinovitch 1 found many charred and calcined remains of human bones. It will be remembered that, according to the depositions of the women of Prnjavor, the Austrians killed many women and children on that spot. My very first observations already enabled me to establish the reality of this massacre. I then caused the pits to be opened. which are in the close vicinity of the two burnt houses, and in which the peasants had already buried the larger portion of such human bodies as were only partially consumed by fire. An ocular inspection of these remains convinced me that there must have been many children among the victims. I also had another pit opened, not far from the house of Mihailo Milutinovitch. This pit contained numerous human remains of young children, both male and female, and others which appeared to be the remains of adult females. The number of the killed, who were buried in the pit is certainly in excess of ten.

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