The prosecution in Bosnia's Serb-majority entity Republika Srpska pressed charges against the mayor of the eastern Bosnian town of Bratunac Srdjan Rankic for, as he noted, “putting photographs of the killed children and soldiers of RS army along the Bratunac-Potocari road ahead of July 11,” the official has wrote on social networks.

According to Rankic, his goal was to draw the “international attention to the Serb victims and that there is no adequate punishment for the crimes committed against them.”

Ahead of the July 11 commemoration for the genocide victims in the nearby town of Srebrenica, Rankic assisted in setting up of the photos along the road leading to the commemoration site, but the local police department order the removal of the photos soon afterwards.

Rankic then said that the photos were put up by the family members of those who were killed with his consent and support.

“Thirty years have passed and no one has been held accountable for the 3,267 killed Serbs, almost half of whom were civilians who were killed in their homes and yards. In this way, we want to point out that there is no justice for the murdered Serbs,” he said then.

Bratunac mayor: Photos of Serb war victims set up along Bratunac-Potocari road

After he said the charges were pressed against him, the mayor noted it was the most “insulting for him both as a human and as a member of the family that lost 86 relatives during the past war the fact that the Prosecutor's Office of Republika Srpska is issuing indictment against him for ‘causing and inciting violence and hatred’.”

“I am repeatedly reading this indictment and asking myself: How is it possible that Republika Srpska institutions are accusing me of this?,” the mayor worte on his official Facebook page.