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UDIK calls on the public to remember war crimes committed in Sanski Most

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, April 20 (FENA) - The Association for Social Research and Communication (UDIK) reminds the public on April 20, the day when in 1992 the 6th JNA Partisan Brigade, which participated in the war in Croatia, took control of all major facilities in Sanski Most, and established full control of road communications. War crimes against Bosniaks and Croats in Sanski Most began with the takeover of power by Serb forces. Mass murders of Bosniaks were carried out in the Muhići, Mahala, Otoka, Hrustovo, Vrhpolje, and Kljevce settlements.

On the occasion of the anniversary, UDIK reminds on the publication entitled War Crimes in Sanski Most – Judgments. Within this publication UDIK documented war crimes committed in the area of the pre-war Sanski Most municipality and presented a list of names of 580 exhumed and identified persons. The publication includes six convictions for war crimes committed in Sanski Most, issued by the State Court and Cantonal Court in Bihać. They were sentenced Jadranko Palija, Nedo Trifković, Mitar Milinković, Nikola Kovačević (alias Daniluško Kajtez), Predrag Prošić, Slavko Bilbija, and Suad Kapić (alias Hodža) from three to twenty-eight years in prison.

"The war crimes committed by Serbian forces in this city must not be forgotten. From 1992 to 1995, they were torturing and killing Bosniaks and Croats, and destructing their properties. There were more than twenty camps and other places of detention in the municipality. The detainees were physically and psychologically tortured, later murdered. The killed Bosniaks and Croats of Sanski Most municipality were found in numerous mass graves, the largest of which were Hrastova Glavica and Sasina,“ pointed out UDIK's President Edvin Kanka Ćudić on this occasion.

The hardest period, in addition to that of 1992, has occurred immediately before the taking over of Sanski Most in 1995. „In September 1995, a large number of Bosniak civilians were killed in several locations. Only in Sasina village were killed 60-70 persons. The killings were carried out in Sanakeram, Kruhari, Tomina, Trnova, Vrš, Okreč, and Došće“, said Ćudić.

The Association for Social Research and Communications (UDIK) helps post-Yugoslav societies to establish the rule of law and to accept the legacy of massive human rights violations in order to identify the criminal responsibility of perpetrators, to meet justice and prevent the repetition of such crimes. It is the affirmation of the value of an open civil society, with clearly defined priorities in terms of promotion and protection of human rights, as well as youth involvement in social and political processes through peace activism, it is said in the statement from UDIK.

 

(FENA) S. R.

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