GRABOVAC: DESPITE NUMEROUS EVIDENCE, THERE IS NO PUNISHMENT FOR CRIMES AGAINST SERBS IN SIJEKOVAC

BROD, MARCH 25 /SRNA/ - The unconstitutional judiciary of BiH is deliberately obstructing the prosecution of war crimes committed against Serbs in Sijekovac and other massacre sites to conceal the extent of the suffering of Serbs during the past war, Marko Grabovac, the president of the Organization for the Search of Fallen Soldiers and Missing Civilians from Brod, told SRNA.

"It is unacceptable that, despite numerous pieces of evidence, statements from surviving witnesses, Serbian camp detainees, and the existence of mass graves, no one among the perpetrators or those who gave the orders for this grave crime against Serbian civilians has been held accountable, neither in BiH nor in Croatia," Grabovac emphasized. Grabovac emphasized that more than 2,000 Serbs passed through Muslim-Croat camps in this area during the past war, with a large number of Serbs being killed, enduring the most horrific physical and psychological abuse, and Serbian women being raped and tortured. "How is it possible that the unconstitutional Prosecutor's Office and Court of BiH have been obstructing the prosecution of those responsible for the crimes in Sijekovac for years, while, on the other hand, they show great speed and zeal in politically fabricated cases against the leadership of Republika Srpska for non-existent criminal acts?" Grabovac asked. The 33rd anniversary of the crime committed against Serbian civilians will be marked tomorrow in Sijekovac near Brod. On March 26, 1992, the Croatian Army and members of the Croatian Defense Forces /HOS/, together with local Muslim-Croat forces, carried out an armed operation against the Serbian civilian population in the suburban neighborhood of Sijekovac near Bosanski Brod. Nine members of the Zečević, Milošević, Trifunović, and Radanović families were killed in the attack. The youngest victim was 17 years old, and the oldest was 72. The aggressors also burned down and destroyed 15 houses and the Orthodox church, and during the occupation of Brod, a total of 504 people were killed, including 137 civilians. One hundred and twenty-six bodies of Serbs were exhumed from four mass graves in the Sijekovac and Brod area. The occupation of Brod ended on October 7, 1992, when units of the First Krajina Corps of the Republika Srpska Army liberated the area of this municipality, establishing the border of Republika Srpska along the Sava River.