Residents of the small eastern Bosnian town of Cajnice gathered on Saturday near the bullet-ridden building of the local hunter’s lodge to commemorate the execution of 42 Bosniaks, laying flowers and praying for the victims.

Ferid Kovacevic lost his sister, brother in law and their two children, aged one and four, his uncle, cousin and other family members in the atrocities that took place in the small town during the 1992-1995 war.

He said he is waiting for justice for 26 years already, but that it never seems to come.

“Us Bosniaks, who survived, have a right to search and research this crime. The courts don’t give us an opportunity to talk about our feelings,” Kovacevic, a member of a local association of families of victims, told N1.

“As each day and year passes by, I am afraid that all is, more and more, being forgotten,” he said.

Ismar Fazlagic was 14 when his father was killed, whose remains are still being searched for.

“He was taken away with the others and my youngest sister who was nine was with him. They took them to the crisis headquarters to the fire department and then to Mostina,” he remembered.

Mostina is the name of the hunters lodge.

“We, who are alive, must never allow ourselves to forget the shahid (Islamic martyr) blood that was spilled for what we have today. It is haram (banned in Islam) to forget what the shahid did for this country, and for us, they gave all they had, their youth and their lives,” the head Imam of the Cajnice Islamic Community, Refik Grabus, said.

Only two people faced the court for the crimes committed in Mostina, Milutin Kornjaca and Milorad Zivkovic, while the others are still free. Among them Milutin’s brother, Dusan Kornjaca, who led the so-called crisis headquarters and who ruled over death a life in this town in the 1990s.