I ask all the Bosnians to remember the victims of what happened in Ahmici and Trusina with sympathy and empathy for their families, Bosnia's Presidency member Zeljko Komsic said on Tuesday, marking the anniversary of the two wartime massacres.
“The crimes committed in Ahmici and Trusina are a constant reminder to us all. Such tragedies must never happen again, to anyone,” the Komsic said, adding that killing of civilians and prisoners of war is the worst kind of crime from a moral, human and military aspect.
“These crimes will always remain in our hearts, but it's high time that we look the truth in the eyes, and move on as a society,” he added.
Both Ahmici and Trusina war crimes happened on April 16, when over 100 Bosniaks were slaughtered in the central-Bosnian village of Ahmici, near Zenica, and 22 Bosnian Croats in Trusina, a village near Konjic in central Bosnia – 18 of which were civilians and four prisoners of war.
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He argues that final verdicts for war crimes in Bosnia pronounced by Bosnian courts must be the template for the behaviour of the authorities as well as everyone else.
“Crimes committed on behalf of one ethnic group must not be justified by crimes of the other group. We mustn't allow those glorifying war crimes and war criminals to continue to be the bearers of social processes in the country,” Komsic concluded.
