KOJIĆ: JUDICIAL AMNESTY OF CRIMES EQUAL TO WHAT ORIĆ AND HIS EXECUTIONERS DID

SREBRENICA, MAY 6 /SRNA/ – The Serb people cannot forget or forgive the crimes committed on St. George's Day in 1992 in the Bratunac village of Blječeva and the Srebrenica village of Gniona, nor those responsible, including the BiH Court, Branimir Kojić, president of the Organization of Families of Captured and Fallen Soldiers and Missing Civilians of Srebrenica, told SRNA.

According to him, what Naser Orić and his men did at the time is identical to what the BiH Court is doing today by covering up crimes and granting amnesty to perpetrators. Kojić reminded that on this day 34 years ago the villages of Blječeva and Gniona suffered attacks in which five Serbs were killed, and that no one has been held accountable to this day. "In the early morning hours, Orić and his men slaughtered 64-year-old Kosana Zekić in Blječeva. They did not stop there but went on to attack Gniona in Srebrenica, a village whose residents were celebrating St. George's Day," Kojić stated. He expressed the belief that the Court justifies this by citing alleged hunger, just as it justifies the crime in Kravica by the hunger of the civilian population. "In Gniona, the `heroes` showed their `courage and bravery` on Radojko Milošević, an elderly man with impaired vision and a spinal injury, whom they burned in his family home," Kojić said. He noted that Orić had previously used a megaphone to call on the population to surrender their weapons, after which they killed everyone they found around the ceremonial bread and candle, both the hosts and their guests, who were, of course, unarmed. According to him, these crimes were a message of what awaited the Serb people in Podrinje and that they could not feel safe even on major holidays. "We ask the BiH Court and Prosecutor's Office what they have done to punish the monsters who brutally killed these people. What kind of military targets were a 64-year-old woman and a disabled man? Was this a legitimate military target for them, while all those who were armed and broke through toward Tuzla in 1995 are considered victims of some `genocide`?" Kojić said. He also asked how long the BiH Court and Prosecutor’s Office would continue to show such arrogance and disregard when it comes to crimes against the Serb people, especially Serb civilians. "The root problem of this dysfunctional system is reflected in such a judiciary, which is the biggest obstacle to progress," Kojić assessed.