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Danijel Kruska, the Serbian deminer who stepped on the "p_té" while demining the minefield near Trebinje in December 1997, was not so lucky. He had his leg amputated just below the knee. "He was shortened by 8 inches," says Nebojsa Loncarevic, the MAC officer of the Republic of Srbska, trying to introduce some black humour into the gloomy atmosphere in the UN jeep while we were speeding on the furrowed roads towards Derventa. The ghastly landscape consisted of completely destroyed Croatian houses, "cleansed" by Serbian warriors who were creating a safe corridor between Banja Luka and Serbia in 1992. As a great majority of all today's Bosnian deminers, Kruska and Loncarevic were members of special task forces that originally laid mines. To make the irony even greater, Kruska stepped on "his own" mine, the mine that was laid by his compatriots during the war. Kruska, whose war task was also to drop the water mines into the Sava river, was paid 100,000 German marks for his lost leg.
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