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The victims were taken to a ditch, forced to dig their own graves and then hacked to death with axes. Dobrosavljević and his son were saved until the end. Dobrosavljević was then made to recite prayers as his son was chopped to pieces. Dobrosavljević was then tortured; his hair and beard were torn
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on 4 January 1886. He completed his high school education as well as the School of
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off, ears cut off and his eyes were gouged out before he was skinned alive.
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