NUŽDIĆ: SERBS ALSO SUFFERED IN PODRINJE IN 1992

BANJA LUKA, JULY 12 /SRNA/ – Acting Director of the Republic Center for War Research, War Crimes and Missing Persons Viktor Nuždić believes that the crime in Zalazje should serve as a reminder and warning that in the days of July in Podrinje, not only Bosniaks were killed, but also Serbs, three years earlier.

“When it comes to crimes against Serbs, the judiciary and the so-called international community turn a blind eye. For them, there are no killed, mutilated, and captured Serbs of Zalazje. For them, Judge Slobodan Ilić and nurse Radivojka Milanović do not exist,” Nuždić told SRNA. Nuždić pointed out that Zulfo Tursunović died a free man, while The Hague and the Court of BiH consider that Naser Orić bears no guilt for this or any other crime. He reminded that after MP Goran Zekić was killed, the Serb people of the Srebrenica area felt unrest and fear, emphasising that in such an atmosphere, which was created deliberately and systematically, Zalazje and Sase were attacked. “The first attack was carried out on June 8, and then, following the established practice from the time of the NDH, the main attack was carried out on the Christian holiday of Petrovdan, July 12,” he said, adding that at least 52 people were killed in these two attacks. He stated that the Republic Center documented this crime through the Atlas of Crimes so that it would not be forgotten. “There is no judicial justice for Serbs, so we in the Center have left an indelible mark as a warning about the suffering of our people,” Nuždić concluded. Today in Zalazje, Srebrenica municipality, the 33rd anniversary is being marked for the killing of 69 Serb civilians and soldiers in this village and in Sase, as well as in Biljača and Zagonje in the Bratunac area. In addition to the 69 killed and many wounded on that tragic Petrovdan, 22 Serbs went missing. Of the 22 missing, 10 were accidentally found and exhumed on June 10, 2011, from a mass grave in Zalazje during the search for killed Bosniaks. The remains of the victims were identified more than a year later and buried on Petrovdan in 2012, while two were exhumed, identified, and buried earlier. Ten of the missing have still not been found, and their traces disappear in the detention facility at the former Srebrenica police station. None of the captured survived, and no one has been held accountable for their killings.