Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the horrific crimes committed on Pionirska Street in Visegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On June 14, 1992, and later on June 27, 1992, in what became known as the “living pyres,” more than 140 women, children, and elderly were burned alive in the houses of Adem Omeragic on Pionirska Street and Meho Aljic in Bikavac. The youngest victim, an infant just two days old, died in her mother's arms without even having a name.

The sole survivor of this atrocity, Zehra Turjacanin, testified about the horrors at Bikavac before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

This atrocity is one of the most gruesome war crimes committed during the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina and stands as one of the darkest crimes of the late twentieth century.

The “living pyre” crime occurred on June 14, 1992, when members of the paramilitary formation “Avengers,” led by Visegrad's most notorious criminals, Milan and Sredoje Lukic, forced around 70 Bosniak civilians, mostly women and children, into Adem Omeragic's house on Pionirska Street in Visegrad, locked them inside, and set the house on fire.

A bomb was thrown into the house, and those who attempted to escape through the windows were shot. Most victims were from the village of Koritnik, where Lukic and Mitar Vasiljevic had gathered them, falsely promising safe passage to free territory in Kladanj. The youngest victim was just two days old.

Milan Lukic was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Sredoje Lukic to 27 years in prison by the ICTY for the Pionirska Street crime.

In June 2018, Radomir Susnjar was extradited to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in 2021, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.