PHOTOGRAPHS OF SERBIAN VICTIMS AS A REMINDER OF HORRIFIC CRIMES

BRATUNAC, JULY 1 /SRNA/ - Photographs of 600 killed Serbs, mostly civilians, from the Bratunac and Srebrenica municipalities were displayed Tuesday evening along the road from Bratunac to Srebrenica. The aim is for all those visiting Potočari and Srebrenica in the coming days to see and witness for themselves that war crimes were committed there against Serbian civilians.

The photographs are placed along the road stretching from the center of Bratunac to the Yellow Bridge, which connects the Bratunac and Srebrenica municipalities. The display of photographs was organized by members of the Organizations of Families of Captured and Killed Soldiers and Missing Civilians from these two municipalities, joined by the president of the Republika Srpska-level organization, Isidora Graorac. She stated that the photographs of the killed Serbs are being displayed again this year so that those who come to Srebrenica to pay respects solely to Bosniak victims could finally see and understand that members of the Serbian people also perished here, and that the majority of the 3,267 Serbian victims in this region were civilians. Graorac emphasized that the photographs confirm that these people existed, with their names and surnames, yet no one has been prosecuted for their suffering. Branimir Kojić, president of the Organization of Families of Captured and Killed Soldiers and Missing Civilians of Srebrenica, said that this road represents a Serbian cry and serves as a message to all who pass by to witness the truth about the immense Serbian suffering in this region, for which no one has been held accountable, except for the shameful individual conviction of Eljfeta Veseli for the brutal murder of the boy Slobodan Stojanović from Drinjača. Kojić emphasized that photographs of the 600 killed from Srebrenica and Bratunac have been displayed, but that in the coming period, they will collect more photos of Serbian victims from all municipalities in the Birač region, even though this is difficult because during the attacks on Serbian villages, Muslims burned and destroyed everything. “Let those who ignore and neglect Serbian victims see again, and let the whole world see the truth that Western media and officials hide from their citizen, that in this area, during the last war in BiH, proportionally more Serbs than Bosniaks were killed relative to how many lived here before the war broke out,” Kojić stated. He emphasized that this is not a provocation but an effort to draw attention to the injustice carried out by the international community and the judiciary of BiH, which ignore Serbian victims and thus cover up criminals from Muslim ranks who are portrayed in the West as victims. The display of photographs marks the beginning of the commemoration of 33 years since the immense Serbian suffering in the villages around Srebrenica and Bratunac on Petrovdan /St. Peter’s Day/ 1992, when 69 Serbian civilians and soldiers were killed in one day, and 22 soldiers were captured, ten of whom are still missing. On Saturday, July 5, the 33rd anniversary of the suffering of Serbs in the Middle Podrinje and Birač will be commemorated in Bratunac, with a memorial service for 3,267 Serbian victims to be officiated by His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije.