NO RULING FOR KILLING FOUR YOUNG SERBS EVEN 32 YEARS LATER

DOBOJ, APRIL 30 /SRNA/ – Four young people were killed today in 1994 in Doboj, and five more were seriously wounded during the shelling of the city downtown from positions of the so-called Army of BiH, which even 32 years later, no one has been held accountable for, nor has the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH taken action to clarify this crime.

A120-millimeter shell fired on April 30, 1994 on the eve of Orthodox Easter, killed Daliborka Blagojević and her fiancé Nedeljko Tanasić on the spot, while Stojanka Jović, expelled from Maglaj, and Ljilja Vukosavović, expelled from Gračanica, later died in hospital from sustained injuries. Blago Blagojević, father of the deceased twenty-year-old Daliborka, told SRNA that he has endured 32 years of personal pain and sorrow, but also regret that those responsible have not faced justice. He says it is also painful that the young victims are not remembered on this day, as if they have been consigned to oblivion and are dying a second time. The shelling of Doboj city centre on April 30, 1994, where young people had gathered on the eve of Orthodox Easter, occurred at around 8:30 p.m. A memorial plaque was installed in March 2000 in the Park of National Heroes in Doboj for 99 innocent victims and 399 wounded who suffered during unselective shelling of the city from positions of the so-called Army of BiH. The District Prosecutor's Office Doboj had previously conducted an investigation against eight individuals, but the case was transferred to the Prosecutor's Office of BiH by a decision of the Court of BiH in 2012. Although 14 years have passed since the case was taken over, the Prosecutor's Office of BiH has previously stated that it is conducting an investigation into the shelling of Doboj during the war operations between 1992 and 1995, and that the case is still in the "investigation phase".