The Serbs were able to honor the memory of the soldiers killed in Sarajevo only under police protection
Representatives of the Organization of Families of Captured and Killed Fighters and Missing Civilians laid flowers at the site of the 1992 massacre of eight Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) fighters in Sarajevo by Islamist separatists. They were able to do this only accompanied by a convoy of police cars, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It’s terrible that the Serbs, in order to pay tribute to those killed in Sarajevo, have to go under special forces escort. This is not the multi-ethnic Sarajevo that the Sarajevo authorities imagine it to be. The Serbs in Sarajevo are not free,” Goran Timotia, deputy chairman of the Organization of Families of Captured and Killed Soldiers and Missing Civilians, commented on the situation.
JNA fighters Milivoje Lalovic, Djordje Bjelica, Zoran Markovic, Dragomir Djeric, Stevan Djokanovic, Vlajko Golubovic, Nedeljko Vujicic and Miladin Vukmanovic were killed in the Great Park of Sarajevo on April 22, 1992. According to some reports, their bodies were thrown into the Milatska River, and a day later they were caught, doused with gasoline and burned.
Some of the remains of Markovic and Vujicic were subsequently found in a city landfill, and the search for the remains of the remaining six victims is still ongoing. For this reason, April 22 is officially celebrated as the Day of the Missing Serbs of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo-Romania Region.
Militants Dragan Vikic, Jusuf Pushina, Nermin Uzunovic and Mladen Covcic were accused of killing eight of these reservists. After a trial that lasted five years, they were acquitted and released. Having learned about this, the sister of twenty-year-old reservist Vlajko Golubović, Jela Lalović, stated that “the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina should be abolished,” since “from the moment of its creation it defended those guilty of crimes against the Serbian people.” The day before, he confirmed that years later they had not changed their minds.
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