Bosniak, Croat and Serb veterans of various armies that were active in Bosnia during the war gathered at Bradina, near the Bosnian town of Konjic, to pay their respects to more than 40 Serb civilian victims of the war crimes committed in the area in 1992.
The gathering of veterans of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Croat Defence Council, the Croatian Army, the Army of Republika Srpska and the Yugoslav Army was organised by the Centre for Nonviolent Action (CNA), an NGO which organises such visits to war crime sites across the region to honour victims of all ethnic groups.
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According to victims’ associations, more than 40 people were killed in Bradina on May 25, 1992 and in the days that followed. The bodies of 25 people were exhumed from a mass grave located next to the local church, more remains were found at various surrounding locations while the search for five more victims is ongoing.
In the months after May 25, 1992, some civilians were also imprisoned and held in inhumane conditions, beaten, subjected to various tortures, and some were killed.
“Today in Bradina, as in many other places, we came to show respect to all victims, express solidarity with the families of those killed and call for the prosecution of those responsible and for those still missing to be found. Although we used to be fighters, we came here today as peace activists, as people who witnessed the brutality of the war and who want to work to ensure that our children never experience this kind of suffering again,” said CNA member and veteran of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Amer Delic.
War crimes proceedings are currently being conducted before the Court of BiH against 15 people for the crimes committed in the Konjic area.
The defendants, members of the former Bosnian and Croat armies and paramilitary organisations, stand accused of “planning, ordering, inciting, aiding and abetting the persecution of Serb civilians on political, national, ethnic, cultural and religious grounds, contrary to the rules of international law, through murder, rape, imprisonment or other serious acts. deprivation of physical liberty, torture and other inhumane acts of a similar nature, committed with intent to cause great suffering or serious physical or mental injury or impairment of health ”.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted three people for the crimes – Esad Landzo, Zdravko Mucic and Hazim Delic.
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