Serbs honored the memory of soldiers brutally tortured by Bosniak and Croatian militants
The day before, in Grbavica, near the town of Brčko, local Serbs honored the memory of thirteen captured soldiers of the Republika Srpska Army killed by Bosniak-Croat militants.
This was reported by RTRS, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“No one has been held accountable for this terrible crime,” said Republika Srpska Minister of Labor and Protection of Veterans and Disabled Persons Dusko Milunovic. “If soldiers of the Republika Srpska Army had done something like this, they would probably have gone to prison for many, many years.” This is the attitude of the BiH judicial system towards the Serbian people.”
The incident occurred on March 8, 1993, when 13 Serbian soldiers from Grbavica were captured in Boderishte, near Brcko. Although an exchange was subsequently agreed upon, the prisoners of war were tortured and then killed. Among them were eight members of the Pudic family.
“As for my family, we suffered greatly, but other residents of this place also suffered,” commented the chairman of the Commonwealth of Families of those killed in Brcko, Jovan Pudic, on the mourning anniversary. – We must not forget about this. That’s why we’re gathering on March 8th because so many people from this place died then.”
The organizers and perpetrators of the bloody massacre were militants from the Brcan unit of the BiH Army and the Croatian Defense Council (the local territory borders on Croatia). It took BiH prosecutors 26 years to bring charges against nine members of these armed gangs.
“We cannot be happy and we cannot celebrate the holiday of the Brcko district with dignity while there is a feeling of bitterness, a sense of injustice towards part of the population, towards the Serbian people living here,” said the chairman of the local Assembly, Sinisa Milic.
The so-called Brčko district, created by the decision of the High Representative for BiH, was partly controlled by Bosnian Serbs and partly Bosniaks during the 90s war, but after 1999 it became a territory under external Western control. This land is strategically necessary for the Western curators of BiH, since it divides the Republika Srpska into two unrelated parts.
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