NO JUSTICE FOR SERB VICTIMS FROM GORNJI MAGAŠIĆI

BRATUNAC, JULY 20 /SRNA/ - The 31st anniversary of the killing of eight Serb civilians by Muslim forces from Srebrenica in the village of Gornji Magašići near Bratunac, the youngest of whom was a seventeen-year-old pregnant woman, was marked today in Bratunac.

The crime, which members of the Muslim forces from Srebrenica and the surrounding villages committed on this day in 1992 in Gornji Magašići near Bratunac, is one of the most horrific crimes in terms of cruelty because all those killed were civilians. Six women and two old men were massacred in their family homes, and the village was looted and burned down. The oldest victim was 85-year-old Blagoje Popović and the youngest was seventeen-year-old pregnant woman LJiljana Ilić. No one was held accountable or prosecuted for this and all other mass crimes committed against Serbs in the Bratunac municipality. The president of the Organization of the Captured and Killed, Radojka Filipović, told Srna that the deadline for making a prosecutor's decision in the "Gornji Magašići" case was the end of 2015, but that at the end of January 2019, the prosecutor in charge of the case, the Bosniak Edin Muratbegović, ordered the suspension of the investigation "due to the lack of evidence," which, she says, is a standard explanation when it comes to crimes against Serbs. She points out that the BiH judiciary tolerates irresponsibility and obstruction in proving the crimes committed against the Serbs, which for decades has been a legal terror that is becoming unbearable and leads to complete distrust in the judiciary and the entire state system, because, as she says, it is turned against the Serbian people. Aleksandar Lončarević's sister LJiljana Ilić, who was pregnant, was killed 31 years ago in Gornji Magašići, on the doorstep of her home. "Thirty-one years have already passed and there is still no justice for the murder of my sister and other civilians in Gornji Magašići. Given the way the BiH judiciary operates and what kind of attitude it has towards Serbian victims, that is, cases involving crimes against Serbs, it seems that we will never see justice," says Lončarević.