MOSTAR, June 13 (FENA) - Laying of wreaths and flowers at memorials in Uborak, Sutina and Zalik near Mostar on Sunday marked the 29th anniversary of a crime committed by members of the Yugoslav Army (JNA) and Serb paramilitary formations in 1992.
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 FC Lokomotiva, from where they were brought to the Uborak site on the night of June 13-14, where they were executed.
The Association of Families of Victims says that this war crime, the first mass crime in Mostar in the past war, was investigated and documented a long time ago, but it never got a court epilogue.
War veterans from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, former members of the RBiH Army (ARBiH), the Croat Defense Council (HVO), the Croatian Army (HV), the RS Army (VRS) and the Yugoslav Army (VJ) attended a commemoration of killed civilians today. Uborka and Sutina near Mostar, and said that those responsible for this crime must be brought to justice.
29 years ago, during the withdrawal of Serb military and paramilitary forces from Mostar, 114 Bosniak and Croat civilians were taken from their homes and killed at two locations in the vicinity of Mostar - Uborak and Sutina. Representatives of the Association of Family Members Killed in Uborak and Sutina in 1992 have been reminding for years that no one was held accountable for this crime and that the families of those killed are still waiting for justice, said the Center for Nonviolent Action (CNA) Sarajevo.
"The crime in Uborak and Sutina was an integral part of the Hague indictment against Vojislav Šešelj. Although the court found that the crimes were committed and named local units and 'Šešelj's men' as responsible, Šešelj himself was acquitted. The families of those killed also point to the fact that Momčilo Perišić, who commanded the JNA units in the area during this period, was not charged with this crime, as well as the lack of prosecution of other commanders and direct perpetrators under the jurisdiction of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH."
The families of those killed laid flowers in Zalik, a suburb of Mostar, where most civilians were taken.
War veterans from the region, organized by the Center for Nonviolent Action, have so far attended commemorations in BiH in Gornji Vakuf, at Kota 715 near Zavidovići, Stog near Vozuća, Novi Grad/Bosanski Novi, Sanski Most (Hrastova glavica), Sijekovac near Brod, Lanište near Brčko, Trusina near Konjic, Ahmići near Vitez, Grabovica near Mostar, Skelani near Srebrenica, Briševo and Zecovi near Prijedor, Korićanske stijene, Stupni Do near Vareš, Boderište near Brčko, the bridge on the Sava River in Brčko, Bradina near Konjic, in Grdelička klisura near Leskovac, Varvarin near Kruševac, Aleksinac, and in Croatia in Pakrac, Varivode and Gošić near Knin.
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