THE CRIME OF ORIĆ'S UNITS AGAINST SERBS ON PETROVDAN

BIJELJINA, JULY 11 /SRNA/ - Muslim forces from Srebrenica, under the command of Naser Orić, attacked several Serb villages in the Srebrenica and Bratunac municipalities on July 12, 1992, Petrovdan /St. Peter’s Day/, killing 69 locals.

Twenty-two Serbs were captured, of whom ten have not been found; all traces of them were lost in the camp at the former Srebrenica police station. Continuing the ethnic cleansing of Serbs that began in April 1992, members of Muslim forces loyal to the Sarajevo government attacked the villages of Zalazje, Sase, and Kunjerac, devastating them. The attack began in the early morning hours while the villagers were celebrating their patron saint’s day, Petrovdan /St. Peter’s Day/. Nurse Radivojka Rada Milanović, who stayed in Srebrenica from the beginning of the war to care for her patients, was executed by shooting in Zalazje. During the attack on Zalazje, Judge Slobodan Ilić was captured, tortured, and cruelly killed. According to the testimony of Muslim witnesses themselves, he was killed by Naser Orić personally.