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Salkić: Those who committed crimes against Bosniaks of Bratunac must be punished

FENA Press release

BRATUNAC, May 11 (FENA) - Vice President of the BiH entity of the RS, Ramiz Salkić stated that the survivors, unfortunately, are witnessing crimes that had been committed against Bosniaks in Bratunac still going unpunished to this day.

"The crime has not been punished because some in this country do not do their job or do it by trying to present that we are all equally guilty. Some of these people are the ones sitting in the prosecutor's offices and so far only a few people have been prosecuted for such cruel crimes that were committed in Bratunac," warned Salkić.

The surviving Bosniaks of Bratunac today, as part of the event that lasts for several days, "Days of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide in Bratunac", marked the 28th anniversary of the persecution of Bosniak civilians from this Podrinje town with a series of events.

Members of the victims' association and war camp survivors, representatives of the Islamic Community, local and entity authorities, in accordance with the current situation and the recommendations of the authorities, visited the city stadium, which in 1992 served as a concentration camp.

From this place, the men were taken to a camp at the Vuk Karadžić Elementary School in the city center, and the women and children, after all their property was confiscated, were expelled to Kladanj, underlined Salkić in his address. 

The survivors today visited the former detention camp in the primary school hall, which several hundred Bosniaks went through in agony. A total of 492 detainees were exchanged in Visoko, after they were kept in Pale, and several hundred of them, according to testimonies, did not live to see to be exchanged and freed, and were brutally killed in this camp.

Today's commemoration ended on the Ljubovija Bridge, from where roses were lowered into the Drina River for the innocent victims. It was at this place that the first murders of Bosniaks from Bratunac were committed in April 1992.

"Sine April 17, 1992, when the Serb representatives forcibly took power in Bratunac, until the end of May of the same year, almost all Bosniaks in Bratunac were expelled. Hundreds of Bosniak civilians were killed, their property looted and burned by the so-called Serb Territorial Defense, the JNA and other paramilitary formations that came from Serbia," it is said in the statement.

Salkić reminds that the Bosniaks returned but that war criminals were never punished for their crime.

A crime that goes unpunished, as he warned, threatens to happen again, because if the criminals are free, it is a guarantee to some future criminals that their crime will go unpunished.

"That is why it is high time since 28 years have passed, for prosecutors' offices and courts to bring at least partial justice for the victims in this town, and for those who committed crimes to be punished," said the Vice President of RS, Ramiz Salkić today.

(FENA) S. R.

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