The Republic of Srpska commemorates the victims of the Bosniak-Croat genocide
The day before, a memorial service was held in Bratunac (Republic Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina) to mark the grim anniversary of the massacres of thousands of Serb civilians from central Podrinje by Bosniak militants.
Balkan media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
After the funeral service, wreaths were laid at the memorial cross in the local cemetery, where the remains of victims of the massacres are buried. The events were attended by State Secretary of the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Affairs of the Government of Serbia Zoran Antic, Russian Ambassador to BiH Petr Ivantsov, as well as representatives of veteran organizations and associations of families of victims of the 90s war.
“28 years ago, in the center of Podrinje, a crime occurred that history did not know, and because of this, this area became the bloody crown of Serbian suffering and the spiritual epicenter of Serbian collective pain,” Serbian member of the Presidium of BiH Milorad Dodik commented on the situation from the capital of the RS Banja Luka. “The Serbian people cannot and will not forgive those who committed these terrible crimes that cause unbearable pain to all Serbs, and at the same time they will not forgive the world of the gentlemen who rewrite history so that the Serbs are almost always to blame for all crimes and who are engaged in the selection of victims.” .
During the Bosniak-Croat separatist war of the 90s in the middle Podrinje region of BiH, Muslim forces killed 3265 Serbs, mostly civilians. From May to December 1992 alone, members of the BiH Army killed 400 Serbs in the municipality of Srebrenica and 560 in the Bratunac area, including many women and children.
Bosniak fighters plundered and destroyed 43 Serbian villages in attacks on central Podrinje and several churches and Serbian cemeteries. They carried out one of their bloodiest campaigns on the great Orthodox holiday of St. Peter's Day in 1992, when, under the command of Naser Oric, they invaded the Serbian villages of Zalazje, Biljaca, Sase and Zagoni, leaving devastation and death there. In this attack they killed 69 Serb civilians and also captured and later killed 22 civilians and Serb military personnel.
Victims of a raid by Bosniak militants on Serbian villages in the vicinity of Srebrenica.
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