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Đorđe Martinović (also spelled ''Djordje Martinović''; ; 19296 September 2000) was a Serbian farmer from Kosovo who was at the centre of a notorious incident in May 1985, when he was treated for injuries caused by the forceful insertion of a glass bottle into his anus. The Martinović affair, as it became known, turned into a ''cause célèbre'' in Serbian politics. Although the facts of the incident remained in dispute for years afterwards, it played a significant role in worsening ethnic tensions between Kosovo's Serb and Albanian populations. ==The incident== On 1 May 1985, Đorđe Martinović, a 56-year-old resident of the Kosovo town of Gnjilane, arrived at the local hospital with a broken bottle wedged in his rectum. He claimed that he had been attacked by two Albanian-speaking men while he was working in his field. After being interviewed by a Yugoslav People's Army colonel, Martinović reportedly admitted that his injuries had been self-inflicted in a botched attempt at masturbation. Public investigators reported that "the prosecutor made a written conclusion from which it appears that the wounded performed an act of 'self-satisfaction' in his field, (he ) put a beer bottle on a wooden stick and stuck it in the ground. After that he sat 'on the bottle and enjoyed'."〔Julie A. Mertus, ''Kosovo: How Myths and Truths started a War'', pp. 100-10. University of California Press, 1999; ISBN 0-520-21865-5〕 Community leaders in Gnjilane subsequently issued a statement describing his injuries as the "accidental consequences of a self-induced () practice."〔Sabrina P. Ramet, Angelo Georgakis. ''Thinking about Yugoslavia: Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo'', pp. 153, 201. Cambridge University Press, 2005; ISBN 1-397-80521-8〕 He was transferred to Belgrade for further investigations at the prestigious Military Medical Academy, but a medical team there reported that his injuries were not consistent with a self-inflicted wound. The team, which included two doctors from Belgrade and one each from Ljubljana, Zagreb, and Skopje (thus representing four of Yugoslavia's six republics), concluded that the injuries had been caused "by a strong, brutal and sudden insertion or jamming of a 500 ml. bottle, or rather, its wider end, into the rectum" and that it was probably physically impossible for Martinović to have done this to himself. The team argued that the insertion "could only have been carried out by at least two or more individuals."〔Jasna Dragović-Soso, ''Saviours of the Nation?: Serbia's Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism'', pp. 132-135. C. Hurst & Co, 2002. ISBN 1-85065-577-4〕 A second opinion was sought and provided a month later by a commission under Professor Dr. Janez Milčinski.〔http://www.ism-mf.si/Zgodovina/〕 The Milčinski team concluded that Martinović could have inserted the bottle by positioning it on a stick, which he had pushed into the earth, but had slipped during masturbation and broke the bottle in his rectum under the force of his body's weight.〔 The Yugoslav secret police and military intelligence reportedly concluded from this that Martinović's injuries had indeed most likely been self-inflicted.〔Louis Sell, ''Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia'', pp. 78-79. Duke University Press, 2003; ISBN 0-8223-3223-X〕 Martinović later recanted his confession, claiming that it had been forced out of him during a three-hour interrogation and that he had been promised that his children would receive employment in exchange for the confession. His son told the press that his father had been attacked simply because he was a Serb: "Friends are telling us () Albanian irredentists did it in revenge. ... They don't care who the victim might be. As long as it is a Serb."〔 In the end, the federal and Serbian authorities did not pursue the case, even after Serbia revoked Kosovo's self-rule in 1989, and no serious attempt appears to have been made to find Martinović's alleged attackers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Đorđe Martinović」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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