Exactly 30 years ago, the Tuzla “Convoy of Salvation” was attacked. It is a war crime without punishment because until today no one has been held accountable.
30 years have passed since the attack on the Tuzla ”Convoy of Salvation“, and no one has been held accountable for the war crime committed by the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) unit on the approaches to Novi Travnik, near Nova Bila, in the Rankovici settlement, from June 4th, 1993 to today.
It was a humanitarian aid convoy in which food and medicines were transported to help the population of the then Northeastern Bosnia district, and it contained 146 trucks, 20 cars, and two ambulances.
As previously stated by the Istina Pravda Pomirenje Foundation, the residents of the surrounding villages joined in the non-selective shooting by the HVO, and there was a general robbery of what was on the trucks, including rice, flour, oil, and medical supplies.
One million and 1,300 German marks were stolen in cash, and Tuzla alone suffered damage of eight million German marks, including goods and money that people sent to their relativesthrough those channels.
In the whole context, property damage is the least of the problems. Namely, in an unfortunate event on June 4th, 1993, data from the Tuzla Foundation say that drivers from the convoy, Fikret Hadzibeganovic, Fikret Ademovic, Mustafa Karic, Hamdija Mutisevic, Hasan Gusic, Hazim Grahic, and Adil Akeljic, were killed. The fate of Salko Memic is still unknown today, and along with him, three other people are missing.
The crime was witnessed by the media crews of HTV and BBC, whose cameras recorded the shelling. The Tuzla Foundation has in its possession certain documentation related to this crime, and the claims are that the whole case has had an established pattern of wandering for several years.
As they repeated on several occasions, everything happens in a way that the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina(BiH) forwards the case to the Prosecutor’s Office of Central Bosnia or Zenica-Doboj Canton, who then returns everything to the beginning, that is, to the primary address, Klix.ba reports.
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