Saturday marks the anniversary of the abduction of 18 Bosniaks and a Croat, along with an unidentified individual, in 1993, when a Serb paramilitary group under the command of Milan Lukic boarded a train in the place called Strpci, near the east-Bosnian city of Visegrad, a Bosnian Association for Social Research and Communication (UDIK) said Saturday.

The civilians were Bosniaks from Serbia and Montenegro and a Croat from Belgrade, along with an unidentified person of Arab descent who were travelling between the Serbian capital, Belgrade and the Montenegrin town of Bar.

Following their abduction, all the civilians were murdered.

“Nebojsa Ranisavljevic was sentenced to fifteen years in prison and Mico Jovicic to five years in prison for this crime. The trial of ten indictees is underway before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including Luka Dragicevic, commander of the Republika Srpska Army’s Visegrad Brigade, and Boban Indjic, commander of the Visegrad Brigade Intervention Company. At the end of 2019, the BiH Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment against Milan Lukic. The trial of Gojko Lukic, Ljubisa Vasiljevic, Dusko Vasiljevic, Jovan Lipovac and Dragana Djekic is underway before the court in Belgrade,” UDIK stated.

The NGO added, “it is our obligation to ask for a memorial plaque to be erected at the former Main Railway Station in Belgrade, from where the train 671 departed, to testify to war crimes committed against civilians, who were primarily citizens of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.”