NO INDICTMENT BEING FILED FOR CRIME AGAINST BJELOVAC SERBS FOR 33 YEARS IS ABSURD

BRATUNAC, DECEMBER 14 /SRNA/ – The Head of the Organisation of Families of Captured and Fallen Soldiers and Missing Civilians of Bratunac, Radojka Filipović, says that three generations of civilians were killed in Bjelovac and that no indictment being filed by the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH 33 years after that Muslim crime, despite witnesses, is absurd.

Filipović, whose husband Dragan and father-in-law Dragoljub were killed today in 1992, also believes that the Bjelovac crime has all the elements of genocide. She explained that the Muslim 28th Division of the so-called Army of the Republic of BiH killed indiscriminately - children, women, and the elderly, looting and destroying Serb-owned property in order to completely erase traces of Serbs’ existence in this area. She emphasized that her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, along with two children and nine-year-old Brano Vučetić, were captured that day and taken to prison camps in Srebrenica, where they were tortured and weakened by starvation for 56 days. “In Bjelovac, three generations were killed - grandfathers and grandmothers, parents, and children. It is incomprehensible, absurd, and sad that even after so many years no indictment has been filed by the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH for the crime in Bjelovac,” Filipović said. She recalled that numerous statements given by witnesses to prosecutors are gathering dust, if they have not been destroyed or removed from the documentation. “How many years does a prosecutor need to collect information that is known to everyone in order to file an indictment?” Filipović asked. She says this proves that the judiciary of BiH is deliberately waiting for witnesses and perpetrators of crimes to die and that, following established practice in cases involving crimes against Serbs, the Court of BiH then states that the investigation or trial has been suspended due to lack of evidence or the death of the suspect. In this way, the judiciary itself commits a crime against Serb victims by protecting perpetrators and implementing Muslim political interests instead of the law. On this day in 1992, early in the morning, strong Muslim forces from Srebrenica and surrounding villages, under the command of Naser Orić, entered these three villages in the Podrinje region, killing everyone they encountered and looting and burning Serb-owned property. The youngest victims were fourteen-year-old Slobodan Petrović and fifteen-year-old Čedo Miladinović, while the oldest was eighty-eight-year-old Zlata Jovanović. Elderly woman Božana Ostojić disappeared and has still not been found.