ZAJIM ZAJKO MEHI\u0106, son of OMER and HAI\u0160A n\u00e9e Beklija, born on May 12, 1895,* in Mostar. He was the owner of a han (inn). A merchant, married, and father of three children. He actively assisted the National Liberation Movement. He was arrested by the Usta\u0161e at the end of 1944, taken to the Stara Gradi\u0161ka camp, and killed. According to a Usta\u0161e source, he was “sent to the camp for a period of 2 years upon the proposal of the \u017d.R.O. in Mostar; he was a member of the local committee in Mostar and supported the partisans with food and money.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An example from literature shows how selflessly Zajko helped exhausted fighters returning from the Sutjeska:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“After resting and discussing the next steps, the group decided that the people from Mostar would go to Mostar, and the others to Konjic and Prozor. In Dobr\u010de, they were welcomed by the families of \u0110uliman, \u0106ori\u0107, and Smajki\u0107, who provided them with meager food, as they themselves had nothing to eat. Once again, Ibro \u0106ori\u0107 set off for Mostar, who knows for how many times, and from Zajko Mehi\u0107, he brought back a horse loaded with flour, beans, dried meat, and dried plums. Meha Arap and \u017divko Papo Hen\u0107i joined the group, who arrived, breaking through from Sutjeska, just like Ibro with valuable supplies. They eagerly took on the cooking duties and prepared delicious meals. Within a few days of staying in Dobr\u010de, contact was established with the organization in the city, and the comrades descended to Mostar (\u2026)”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Omer \u0160aput, the brother of the murdered Safet \u0160aput, gave a statement after the war on October 19, 1945, which was published as the “Report of the City Commission for Investigating War Crimes of the Occupiers and their Collaborators” regarding Safet’s arrest, which also mentions Zajko Mehi\u0107. All the arrested individuals went through a similar ordeal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “On March 24, 1944, there was a Usta\u0161e protective police force from Sarajevo in Mostar, which, in collaboration with the Mostar police, carried out a series of arrests. (…). These arrests were conducted by agents, namely, the head of the protective police force from Sarajevo, Jakupovi\u0107, agent Hafizovi\u0107, Su\u0161i\u0107 Pavo (illegible), and agent Cvitanovi\u0107 from the Mostar police. Su\u0161i\u0107 Pavo, in particular, was very cruel, and the others more or less as well. I think all the agents are now on the run. In Mostar, they kept several arrested individuals in prison for another month, where they subjected them to horrifying torture and terror. They tortured them with three days of hunger, gave them salt, beat them with fists, legs, batons, put them in the so-called ‘tram,’ and after a month, they sent them to Stara Gradi\u0161ka, a large penitentiary. In that group, there were 12 men and 4 women from Mostar. From Mostar, there were Professor Alikalfi\u0107 Mustafa<\/a>, Zajko Mehi\u0107, Omer Mesihovi\u0107<\/a>, Lazo Radi\u0161i\u0107<\/a>, Had\u017eiselimovi\u0107 Arif Sabitage<\/a>, \u010culajevi\u0107 Du\u0161an<\/a>, Bu\u010duk<\/a>, Osman Novo, my brother Safet. I can’t remember the other names at the moment. Among the women were Fatima Balta<\/a>, Fahira \u0106i\u0161i\u0107, Dika Had\u017ei\u0107<\/a>, and Bera \u0106emalovi\u0107<\/a>. (…)”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n * According to the book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945,” he was born in 1895, but according to one Usta\u0161e source, he was born in 1893.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ZAJIM ZAJKO MEHI\u0106, son of OMER and HAI\u0160A n\u00e9e Beklija, born on May 12, 1895,* in Mostar. He was the owner of a han (inn). A merchant, married, and father of three children. He actively assisted the National Liberation Movement. 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