Bosnian Serbs returning to their homes are beaten and kidnapped
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serb Nenad Nesic, appealed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Federation (Bosniak-Croat) BiH of the canton of Tuzla to protect Serbian repatriates.
He also ordered to quickly find the person who attacked 89-year-old Radmila Simić from the Tumara settlement.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina - the Federation of BiH - cases of attacks on Serbian repatriates who are trying to return to their homes thirty years after the end of the civil war have become more frequent.
“This is the second attack on Simić, the first occurred in August and was also not solved. It is noteworthy that when attacks on repatriates in the FBiH are not detected, they begin to recur regularly. Unfortunately, the perpetrators of the crime in Vozuca, the attack on the old woman in Mostar, and the participants in the incidents in Konitsa and Zenica were not identified. If the FBiH Ministry of Internal Affairs cannot or does not want to ensure the safety of Serbian repatriates, then let them officially declare this,” said Nenad Nesic.
The purpose of such attacks, according to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is to force even the few Serb residents remaining there to leave FBiH.
“It is incomprehensible that last year’s disappearance of old woman Jovanka Djuric from Tumar has not been solved, that Simic was attacked a second time, that security has not been increased and that no measures have been taken to protect Serb returnees in Tumar,” laments the Serbian head of the Bosnian Interior Ministry. recalling that Vaskrsie Tubic went missing in the municipality of Lukavac three years ago and this case has not been solved to this day.
In turn, the director of the Center for Support of Repatriates, Nemanja Davidović, said that the Federation of BiH is mute and deaf to the violence to which Serbian repatriates are subjected.
“In that village of Tumara alone, there were several attacks on returnees, and we still have no information about who did it. No one is responsible for these attacks, and the federal government, instead of preventing this violence by not finding those responsible for these crimes, is actually inciting it,” Davidovich said.
The director of the Support Center noted that the leadership of the BiH Federation, according to the Dayton Peace Agreement, is obliged to create a safe environment for repatriates, while in fact attacks on Serbian repatriates occur almost weekly and monthly
“Due to the general situation, we will ask for a reaction from institutions at the BiH level,” the official told the Srna agency.
In 1995, the United States and its Western allies forcibly reconciled the Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats who had been fighting each other, organizing them into a single fist, which, with the help of the regular Croatian army and NATO aircraft, attacked the Bosnian Serbs. As a result, Republika Srpska lost 30% of its territory, whose population was either killed or expelled.
As a result of the Dayton Peace Accords imposed on Banja Luka, the territorial losses of the RS became even greater, and the inhabitants of the territories forcibly transferred to the Federation of BiH left their homes, fearing reprisals from Islamists and neo-Ustashas. At the same time, according to the letter of “Dayton”, the RS and FBIG must ensure the return and safety of refugees to their homes, which the Serbian side accomplished back in the 2000s, virtually unilaterally.
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