WHO DESTROYED ORTHODOX CHURCHES IN ZIMČA, KLJEVCI, MILANOVAC, VRELO…?

SARAJEVO, APRIL 5 /SRNA/ - The Committee for the Protection of Serb Rights in the FBiH today asked Bosniak political leaders who set fire to the Serbian Orthodox church in Zimča, a suburb of Visoko, during the war in BiH.

Reacting to claims made by Bosniak politicians in a joint statement that, in the territory controlled by the so-called Army of BiH, "key religious and cultural sites of other peoples were preserved," the Committee requested answers to who burned Orthodox churches in the settlements of Kljevci and Milanovac near Sanski Most, as well as in the settlement of Vrelo near Cazin. Earlier, the Committee for the Protection of Serb Rights in the FBiH had asked Bosniak politicians to respond as to whose forces demolished and then burned the Church of the Holy Archangel in Jasenica near Bosanska Krupa, the church in Dubnica on the Kalesija-Tuzla road, the church in Bilješevo built in 1908, and the church in Stog near Zavidovići. "Who burned the Serbian Orthodox chapel in the suburban settlement of Gradišće near Zenica? Who set fire to the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Osenik near Pazarić, the same church in Nišići, as well as the chapel of Saint John the Theologian and the parish home in Goražde?" the Committee asked, citing photographs of destroyed Orthodox sites and footage of their destruction. Bosniak leaders signed, on March 18 in Sarajevo, a "Declaration condemning hate speech, Islamophobia, and false narratives about Bosniaks and BiH." In point 7 of the declaration, they stated that in the territory controlled by the so-called Army of BiH, "largely composed of Bosniaks," "key sites and elements of the religious and cultural identity of other communities were preserved."