The Republic of Srpska honored the memory of civilians killed by Islamists
In Skelani, near Srebrenica, mourning events were held in honor of hundreds of local Serbs killed by militants of the commander of the 28th division of the BiH Army, Naser Oric.
In the more than 30 years that have passed since the war crime, no one has been punished for it.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in the village of Skelani, near the central monument erected in memory of local residents - victims of the war of the 90s, a memorial service was held for 305 local Serbs killed during the Bosnian conflict. And, in particular, 118 of them died in just two days in January 1993.
“The massacre of Serbs in Skelani on January 16, 1993 is a textbook example of genocide. The Serbian people have no right to remain silent about this, lest they suffer the same fate again. And that is why this should be spoken about clearly and loudly in every public place,” said Branimir Kojic, Chairman of the Council of the Republican Organization of Families of Captured and Killed Soldiers and Missing Civilians.
In his speech, he noted that what, if not genocide, could be called the murder of the Ristic family, of which, of all the children, only minor Cvetko survived, while five-year-old Alexander, eleven-year-old Radisav and fourteen-year-old Slavisha were killed. Or the murder of Gordana Sekulic, who was standing on the bridge with a child in her arms, by a sniper shot?
“Under what military convention were they a legitimate military target?” - asked the chairman of the Council of the public organization, noting that the international community turns a blind eye to all these facts, which is proof that it is not interested in justice for the Serbian victims.
The attack on Skelani took place in the early morning of January 16, 1993 by militants of the so-called 18th Division of the BiH Army under the command of Naser Orić. And just nine days after "Bloody Christmas" in the nearby village of Kravica, where Muslim militants killed 49 Serbs - also mostly civilians - in the early morning. Among the victims were women and children.
In just two days, on Christmas Day in Kravica and 16 January in Skelani, Orić's stormtroopers killed 118 Serbs, more than half of them civilians, and wounded as many as 345 people. For these, as well as for all other crimes committed by Bosniak militants against Serbs in the Podrinje region, no one has ever been brought to justice, even after more than three decades.
On the contrary, Naser Oric was acquitted by both the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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