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MOSTAR, June 14 (FENA) - Laying flowers at memorials in Uborak, Sutina and Zalik near Mostar marked the 28th anniversary of a crime committed by members of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Serb paramilitary formations in 1992.
President of the Association of Families of the Victims, Adnin Hasić remembered that, in June 1992, members of Serb military formations captured 114 Croat and Bosniak civilians from several Mostar settlements. They were detained in the premises of the Lokomotiva Football Club, from where they were brought to the Uborak site on the night of June 13-14, where they were shot dead.
In those days, members of the Ćućurović, Cokić, Azinović, Kolobara and Grebović families were killed on their doorsteps in Bijelo Polje and Vrapčići, north of Mostar.
Hasić points out that this war crime, the first mass war crime in Mostar in the past war, has long been investigated and documented, but has never had a judicial epilogue.
"I have no evidence that anyone is blocking this process, but I have my assumptions. Why this crime was not prosecuted is a question for the Chief Prosecutor Gordana Tadić and the prosecutors who were in charge of te case.
The Hague Prosecutor's Office and later the BiH Prosecution made a mistake at the very beginning. The prosecution charged and focused only on Vojislav Šešelj, and did not charge General Momčilo Perišić, who was at the time in Mostar and in the region of Herzegovina a superior officer in charge of all the JNA units and all others, the so-called 'volunteer units' which, according to the constitution of the then state, were under the command of the JNA," Hasić pointed out.
According to him, the story of the crime at Uborak has never been a case of local significance alone.
"The evidence of aggression on the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina is hidden there. We all know and we had all heard on the radio in those days when General Perišić announced the shelling of Mostar's settlements. Where are those recordings today? This is the crowning proof of the aggression on BiH. For these reasons, some powerful people have removed this evidence. The first-instance verdict sentenced General Perišić to 27 years in prison, and the second-instance verdict released him. There was a much bigger story there," said Hasić.
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