This day marks 24 years since the kidnapping happened in Strpci, which is the name for a crime that happened on 27th February 1993, when members of the Serbian paramilitary unit under the command of Milan Lukic, kidnapped a group of passengers from train 671 on the route Belgrade-Bar.
Kidnapped passengers, 18 Bosniaks and one Croat, were then killed.
Most of those killed were citizens of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and were mainly from Priboj, Prijepolje, Belgrade and Podgorica. Among them were citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well.
The remains of 16 passengers are still missing, while the remains of Rasim Coric, Jusuf Rastoder and Halil Zubcevic are found in Lake Perucac.
The State Court confirmed the indictment against the former members of the Army of the Republic of Srpska (VRS) for the kidnapping of passengers from the train in Štrpci, who were later killed in Višegrad, was confirmed from the Prosecutor’s Office of B&H.
In mid-April, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina accused Luka Dragičević, Boban and Petko Inđić, Obrad and Novak Poluga, Dragan Šekarić, Oliver Krsmanović, Radojica Ristić, Vuk Ratković and Mico Jovičić for kidnapping 20 passengers from the train Belgrade-Bar on February 27th 1993 in the village of Štrpci (Municipality Rudo).
“After the abduction, the victims were taken to the school in Prelovo near Višegrad, where they were tortured, abused and robbed, and then, with visible injuries, transported to the locality of Mušići, where they were killed and their bodies dumped in the Drina river”, it was announced from the Prosecutor’s Office of B&H, according to BIRN-Justice Report.
After the war, the remains of four victims have been found, while it is still being searched for the remains of the others.
(Source: ST/klix)
