Luka, the town butcher, owned the pasture and the smokehouse on the edge of town.

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General Stanislav Galic was captured in the northern town of Banja Luka, the main city in the Bosnian Serb Republic.

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He left the town of Banja Luka in the early hours of Saturday morning under a Bosnian Serb police escort and headed for the Yugoslav border.

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Graveyards are always a good startingplace for local history and, on the wooded slopes above the town, I find Sveti Luka cemetery.

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