Activists of the 'Women in Black' association gathered in Belgrade downtown on Saturday to honour the Bosniak victims of the 1992 crime in the south-western village of Sjeverin, near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On October 22, 1992, members of a Bosnian Serb paramilitary unit stopped a bus passing through the area and rounded up 16 Bosniaks, took them to a place near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad and tortured and killed them at the shore of the Drina river.
Nevladina organizacija “Žene u crnom” održala je danas u centralnoj beogradskoj ulici Knez Mihailovoj ćutanje i stajanje u crnini u znak sjećanja na otmicu i ubistvo Bošnjaka u Sjeverinu 22. oktobra 1992. godine. Bile su meta provokacija jedne od prolaznica pic.twitter.com/gRPU90CuLo
— TV N1 Sarajevo (@N1infoSA) October 22, 2022
The activists who gathered in Belgrade's Knez Mihailova Street carried the banners with the names of 16 persons who were killed in the village but some of them also conveyed messages, showing solidarity with victims and their families, demanding that those responsible answer for their crime.
One of the activists held up the banner that reads ‘Sjeverin’ next to the date when the crime was committed and a message ‘We remember’.
The rally was briefly interrupted by a verbal provocation when a women, who passed by, insisted that “all victims should be temembered” and accusing the ‘Women in Black’ activists of caring about “the Bosniak victims only.”
Some foreign tourists were curious to learn from the citizens and reporters what the gathering was about.
The rally was secured by the police.
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