PUNISH THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR MUSLIM CRIMES AGAINST SERBS IN ZALAZJE

BANJA LUKA, JULY 11 /SRNA/ – The Republika Srpska War Veterans Organisation /BORS/ emphasizes that the crime against Serbs in the Srebrenica village of Zalazje on St. Peter's Day /Petrovdan/ in 1992 is one of many committed against the Serb people in the Podrinje region, which no one has been held accountable for so far, calling on judicial institutions to do their job in order to finally punish the responsible BiH Army members and the victims and their families to see some justice.

"Naser Orić and Sabahudin Muhić were tried for the crime in Zalazje before the Court of BiH, but it was determined that they were not guilty. Therefore, even this attempt to establish responsibility and punish the perpetrators of the crimes against Serbs in Zalazje and Podrinje ended without a judicial outcome," the statement says. BORS reminds the international and BiH public there are also Serb victims in the Podrinje area, that their suffering lasted from 1992 to 1995, and that the commemoration in Zalazje is a remembrance of just one of the many crimes committed against Serbs in this region. "On the same day, Serbs were killed in the villages of Sase, Biljača, and Zagoni as well. The crimes continued throughout the war, but no one has been held responsible for any of this yet," BORS pointed out. BORS calls on all judicial institutions responsible for punishing the perpetrators of these crimes to work more actively and help ensure that justice finally reaches the criminals, and that the victims and their families may finally see some justice. Zalazje, the municipality of Srebrenica, tomorrow marks the 33rd anniversary of the suffering of 69 Serb civilians and soldiers in this village, as well as in Sase, Biljača, and Zagoni, in the Bratunac area. In addition to 69 killed and a large number wounded, 22 Serbs went missing on that tragic St. Peter’s Day. Out of the 22 missing, 10 were accidentally found and exhumed on June 10, 2011, from a mass grave in Zalazje, during the search for missing Bosniaks. The remains of the victims were identified more than a year later and buried on St. Peter's Day in 2012, while two were exhumed, identified, and buried earlier. Ten people are still missing, with their traces lost in a prison located at the former Srebrenica police station. None of the captured survived. No one has been held accountable for their killings.