In the video about Ratko Mladić, which was broadcast by the Television of the Bosnian Federation - for which Naši, i.e. Minister Ljajić and others in charge say that it's manipulation, and that after confiscating the footage from Mladić's wife Bosiljka, they handed it over to the Hague Tribunal at the beginning of this year - there is a scene where Bosiljka's wife, over a coffee, asks her husband Ratko how he is doing, and Ratko willingly answers, Who in heaven. The place of action has been identified, it is a military building in Stragari, which was built next to the insurgent gunpowder store from 1806. Speaking on the given topic, Minister Ljajić, in a ministerial and incorrect accent, also said that after leaving Belgrade, General Mladić stayed in military facilities on Rajac, in Stragari, and in Krčmar, at the foot of Divčibar, near Valjevo.
COMMAND POST: That was enough for the reporters of "Vremena" to go to the scene of the investigation and under urgency. Therefore, Stragari, which is said to be in the heart of Šumadija, is a village, a small town, somewhere in the middle between Topola and Kragujevac. At the turn from the main road between the two mentioned towns, there is a signpost with the words Lovište, Srebrnica, Stragari in yellow letters. The road is asphalt and downhill and overgrown with various vegetation, mainly acacia and other fast-growing shrubs. It passes through the villages of Vlakče and Kotraža, where there are trumpeters, and reaches the Stragari signboard. On the left huge hills of asbestos tailings, from one of the largest asbestos mines in Europe, right Stragari. Houses along the road, bars, self-service, a central semi-crossroads, there is a one-story building whose front side is painted blue, while everything else, like that building and what happens, is dilapidated. On the painted facade, a large canvas banner announces Plum Days for the beginning of August. In the right place is the large and bronze monument to Tanasko Rajić, the hero of the First Serbian Uprising from Stragar. The monument is large, Tanasko is holding a large scimitar in his left hand, in his right and outstretched holster. And his mustache is very big and heroically relaxed and dangerous.
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We go further and straight along that asphalt road, on the right side of the concrete pole, on the left side of the wooden one, there are also houses, more around the houses, trees mostly on the right side. In front of one of the houses there is a metal sign with a picture, Here lived Dušan Milošević Dule, a member of the first Olympic team of Serbia, a participant of the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912. Further on, you pass a large school, a large and new gymnasium, every child who goes to meet you, every child who stands, says Good day, and then straight on, you reach a one-story building, in front of which hangs the Serbian tricolor with the Olympic circles on the mast, and where the Stragari City Office is located. The reporters asked the secretary what he was doing, the election material of the Democratic Party on the table, and the election material of the Nikolić Tom party on the table, the elections for local communities are going on. Reporters find out that the head of the MoH is a man from the DSS, they also find out that Stragari used to be a municipality until 1965, that they got the status of a municipality in 2004, but that now they are not a municipality, just a local community. They have 4500 inhabitants, 1000 in the town, they have agriculture, some economy, an asbestos mine that has not been working since it was taken over by media magnate Raja Rodić. Reporters also learn that in Stragari there is also a military facility, which the army arranged around the old powder room, which dates back to 1806. That military facility on almost 40 hectares has everything there, arranged as a command post of the First, or Belgrade, army area in case of war. What is there, there is all the infrastructure, there is a heliport, there are also swimming pools, there is also a small hydroelectric plant, various buildings for rest and other purposes, there is also a reserve of fallow deer and mouflon. About the topic, about General Ratko, who by the nature of things came to his turn, the reporters found out that he was there, in that military facility, that it was said so, and that, after he left there, there was some big and secret action by the security guards, who went from house to house and asked everyone who had seen Ratko. It could have been in 2003, 2004, since then no one mentions General Ratko, only when someone feels like mentioning him.
SPORTS PAGE: The reporters continue straight on that asphalt road, still concrete poles on the right, wooden poles on the left, and all around, all around, just overgrown greenery. After a few hundred meters, there would be a sign for prohibited photography, and a Control sign, a sign for the Stragari Military Facility. We approach, the gate is metal, additionally locked with chains, inside is a registration booth, further, as far as the eye can see, some signposts, further on an object in front of which are several soldiers. The commander of the guard approached the gate, the reporters introduced themselves, We are young journalists on assignment, the commander asked in a military manner how he could help, the reporters replied that they would like to look around a bit and investigate, the commander said in a military manner that he could not help them there, and as for General Ratko, he had also heard of General Ratko.
What do the reporters do then, they just give up, go back and move on and do all the research on the other side. First they went upstream along the river, on the other side were hectares of military facilities hidden in large trees and other green vegetation. They counted the roof, the weak way. Then they go uphill, towards the Voljavča monastery, where the Governing Council sat in 1805, and where in 2005, on the occasion of its bicentenary, Koštunica and all its members held a formal session of the Government. The reporters climbed up the hill, continued up the country road, passed an excavator, jumped over some eddies, over some more, and the military facility appeared in all its glory. Everything is in the forest, in various birch trees, in linden and evergreen trees, but you can see the roofs of large buildings, and something yellow and square, the reporters agreed, it must be a heliport. While they were exploring, a tractor came along the road and above. The man stops, at first he understands the question, what does he know, and he heard that the general was there, no one saw him, anyone saw him. There, he pointed with his hand, all the comforts, during Tito's time it was the main command center in case of war, there are also deer, there are also mouflons, they come out of the reserve, they cause damage. And Ratko, who will know where Ratko is, you couldn't get in there, only God knows where Ratko is. A farmer from behind the hedge also came forward, who was raking hay, those animals do a lot of damage, it turned around, he also added his own on the subject, how Ratko, who could have seen Ratko, knows that the Old Gunpowder Mill has not been working since the Great War, he read that Tanasko Rajić made cannons there, and that after that everything was arranged only for rest and other military activities.
The reporters returned to the center of the village at that half-crossroad, with a large monument to Tanasko Rajić, a painted front facade, a banner for Plum Days. One with a moustache, in good old age, with a sajkachu, sits, with coffee, reading the daily newspaper with General Ratko on the front page. Investigative reporters enter into the conversation, where he is from, how he lives. From Dobrača, seven kilometers, and you live, jbg, you live. They have cattle, sheep, and pigs. Word by word, the investigator reaches General Ratko, the interlocutor turns to him the back, sports page of the newspaper, Who, Ratko, he doesn't know anything about that, now he took the newspaper, the people are talking, he pointed with his hand, it's worse, there's nothing to it, who knows where he is, someone is holding him. They move on to lighter topics, there are also roe deer at his place in Dobrača, they come from Ramača, Ramača is not small, all the way to Rudnik, 17 kilometers long and even wider in width.
