GRAORAC: BRADINA CRIME PROVES NO JUSTICE FOR SERBS IN BiH

BANJA LUKA, MAY 25 /SRNA/ - The criminals killed all the Serb civilians they could find in Bradina 33 years ago, yet none have been held accountable to this day, which reflects the judiciary’s attitude towards Serb victims, said Isidora Graorac, the head of the Republic Organisation of Families of Captured, Fallen Soldiers and Missing Civilians.

“What happened in Bradina is genocide against the Serb people, given the fact that Serbs were completely erased from that village,” Graorac told SRNA. She said that even today, 33 years after the heinous crime in Bradina, there have been no court proceedings against those responsible, which she described as a failure of the judiciary in BiH. “For us Serbs, the only thing left is to rely on divine justice, believing that if the perpetrators are not held accountable in this world, they will be in the next,” Graorac emphasized. She noted that neither in BiH nor in the Hague Tribunal was there any real consideration, understanding, or compassion for Serb victims. Bosniak and Croat perpetrators, over the course of three days between May 25 and 27, 1992, threw 26 murdered Serbs into a pit in front of the Orthodox church in Bradina. Another 22 Serb civilians were killed in prison camps, while five individuals are still missing. Among the 48 Serbs killed in Bradina, the majority were from the Kuljanin family, but members of the Vujičić, Mrkajić, Žuža, Kureš, Gligorević, Koprivica, Draganić, and Živac families also perished. The remaining Serb population was expelled from their homes, their movable property was looted, and their houses and church were burned.