KOJIĆ: SARAJEVO IS STILL NOT READY TO FACE TRUTH

SREBRENICA, MAY 3 /SRNA/ - Sarajevo is still not ready to face the truth, which is confirmed by the strong police presence during today’s commemoration marking 34 years since the events in Dobrovoljačka Street in Sarajevo, said the president of the Organization of Families of Captured and Killed Soldiers and Missing Civilians of Srebrenica Branimir Kojić.

"The route taken by the group of people who came to Dobrovoljačka to light candles and lay flowers was almost empty. There is still neither the courage nor the willingness in the Federation of BiH, especially in Sarajevo, to acknowledge the truth, offer an apology, and ask for forgiveness," Kojić told SRNA. He said that the Court of BiH has not done, and is unlikely to do, anything to prosecute those responsible and that in this way it keeps all generations of Muslims living in Sarajevo as hostages of a false history, and every May 3, they will be confined to their homes. "We have not forgotten, nor will we forget, this or any other crime against our people, and we will gather at all sites of suffering and preserve the truth, because we have no trust in the Court of BiH, which we see as an extended arm of those who committed this and similar crimes," he said. According to him, the fact that 157,000 Serbs were expelled from Sarajevo clearly shows what the goal was at the time, and that Sarajevo does not think differently even today. The JNA convoy was attacked in Dobrovoljačka Street while peacefully withdrawing from Sarajevo in accordance with a prior agreement and under the guarantee of UN peacekeeping forces led by General Lewis MacKenzie. According to data from the Republika Srpska Center for Research of War, War Crimes and the Search for Missing Persons, at least 28 JNA members were killed in Sarajevo on May 2 and 3.