At the martyr’s cemetery Lipić – Selimovići in Bijeljina, the Fatiha for the souls of brutally murdered civilians was recited in April 1992.
No one has ever been held accountable for the murder of civilians in Bijeljina.
Bijeljina was a general rehearsal of the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina, and on March 31, 1992, members of the Serbian Volunteer Guard under the command of Željko Ražnatović, known as Arkan, entered the city. The road from the Pavlović Bridge that they used to travel in 1992 is still officially called the Street of the Serbian Volunteer Guard.
The crimes of members of the Serbian Volunteer Guard were immortalized by the American photojournalist Ron Haviv, and the photo of brutal murder of civilians went around the world.
Today, the Fatiha was studied for all the victims up to the period of 1995, as well as the victims of the ethnic cleansing that was systematically carried out from 1992 to 1995. In that period, 35,000 Bosniaks were expelled from Bijeljina and Janja towards Tuzla. Also, no one was ever responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Semberija from Bosniaks.
On the contrary, April 4 is officially celebrated as Liberation Day in Bijeljina, and for 31 years the Bosniaks of Bijeljina persistently asked the city officials from whom the city was liberated, but they never received an answer.
