By laying flowers and paying tribute to the victims killed in late June 1992 in the village of Kasapnice near Sanski Most, today marks the 33rd anniversary of the crime in which 20 men from Kenjari were killed.
As a nine-year-old girl, Edisa Hodžić witnessed the taking away of her father, three uncles and a aunt on June 18, 1992.
In an interview with Detektor, she said that 21 men aged 16 to 72 were taken away, and that a week later they learned that they had allegedly been killed on June 26 and then set on fire at the Kasapnice site in the village of Hrustovo, which is 15 or 20 kilometers from the village of Kenjari, from which the victims were from.
Her father Mehmed and her uncles Asim and Midhet Kenjar, as well as her uncle Tehvid Kalabić, who was not yet 17 years old, were also killed that day.
“The perpetrators of the crime are our neighbors. The place where we lived in 1992 was called Kljevci and within that village, it is a larger area, Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks lived. In Kenjari, where we are, there were Serbs around us. They went to school with my father and uncles and we knew them,” points out Hodžić.
The anniversary, which is marked every year in Kasapnice, is attended by the families of the victims, former camp inmates and representatives of the local community and political parties.
According to Detektor’s Database of Judicially Determined Facts, on or around June 27, 20 men of Bosniak ethnicity were arrested in the hamlet of Kenjari, who were interrogated and taken to a house in the hamlet of Blaževići, where soldiers planted explosives and then opened fire from rifles on those who tried to escape.
The bodies of the dead were returned to the house, which was set on fire. It was determined that 18 men were killed, BIRN BiHBIRN BiH reports.
