The remains of the sixteen victims are ready for burial at the collective funeral which will be held on the plateau of the future Kamicani memorial centre in Kozarac near Prijedor on July 20.

The head of the Organizing Committee for the commemoration of July 20, the Day of Remembrance and the funeral for the victims of Prijedor and the Sana Valley, Mufti Mehmed Kudic of Bihac, stressed the importance of commemorating the Bosniaks killed in the Krajina region at a press conference on Thursday.

He expressed support for the Institute for Searching for Missing Persons and called on the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina to prosecute all perpetrators who have not been brought to justice so far.

He explained that funerals were organized at various locations throughout previous years, but that in 2019, a decision was adopted for them to take place at one location and this is now the site where the Kamicani memorial centre in Kozarac is to be constructed.

“We want to draw attention to the importance and magnitude of the sacrifice that Bosniaks made in that area,” said Kudic.
The head of the regional office of the BiH Institute for Missing Persons in Bihac, Mujo Begic, said that the remains of 16 people exhumed from ten different locations will be buried this year.

The youngest victim to be laid to rest was born in 1973, and the oldest was born in 1927, he said.

“This year, we will dig up the victims found in the mass grave of Koricani cliffs, Matrici, Garevci, people found in the location of a single grave in the area of Bijakovac in the municipality of Bosanska Gradiska, then in several locations in the area of Kozarac, Prijedor etc.” he said.

He noted that so far the institute found the remains of murdered residents of Prijedor across 501 locations and 10 different municipalities across Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as in Croatia and Serbia.

“Every year we dig continuously, we identify, we find victims. Unfortunately, that process has not yet been completed and we cannot tell the victims’ families the news that would have brought them some peace if we had found all the victims in Prijedor. We found more than 80 percent of all those killed in the area of Prijedor municipality,” Begic said.