The Banja Luka Police Department announced that it sanctioned several persons who participated in commemorating the suffering of Bosniaks in the village of Vecici in Kotor Varos for alleged "shouting, screaming and indecent behaviour."

“The police officers of the Kotor Varos Police Station identified the persons who on November 03, 2023, during a public meeting in the town of Vecici, Kotor Varos municipality, shouted and waved flags, symbols, wore uniforms and had other [similar] content, thus committing the offences ‘Arguing, shouting, screaming and indecent behaviour’ from Article 7 of the Law on Public Order and Peace of the Republic Srpska [entity],” the police announced.

The final commemoration of the Peace March – Silent Walk for the Victims was held on November 3, as a memorial to the killed and missing Bosniaks of Kotor Varos and its surroundings.

As in previous years, the gathered moved from Karaula near Travnik to the village of Vecici, where the central event of the commemoration of over 160 Bosniaks killed in the village of Grabovica was held.

“People die, witnesses are disappearing, biological families are disappearing, so it's getting harder and harder, but we won't give up, as long as we're alive, we'll search for them,” Munevera Avdic from the local Association of martyrs and the missing persons, said.

According to data from the BiH Missing Persons Institute, the remains of 157 victims who disappeared in the Kotor-Varos area have been identified so far, while the search for 244 victims is still ongoing.

The local Serb population saw the commemoration as provocative because of the iconography – “the war flag of the BiH Army, green berets and camouflage uniforms,” the media in the Republika Srpska entity reported.