On Friday, a special program marked the 31st anniversary of the massacre on the school playground in Srebrenica, when 74 people were killed, while over a hundred were wounded in the explosion of four grenades fired from a position of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS). No one was held accountable for this crime.
This massacre took place on April 12th, 1993, just four days before Srebrenica was declared a protected zone by the United Nations (UN).
According to the spokeswoman of the Srebrenica Memorial Center, Almasa Salihovic, for the people who were killed, it was unfortunately already too late, that is, it meant nothing to them.
Salihovic said that even 31 years later, no one has been held accountable for this crime, nor has an indictment been filed.
“We do not know the perpetrators, and indeed every year together with the families and survivors of Srebrenica, we remind that no one was held accountable for this crime, that it must not be forgotten, and that no crime must remain unprocessed, i.e. that no person who committed the crime shouldremain free, but should be held accountable,” Salihovic pointed out.
As she said, flowers were laid on Friday and a hundred tulips were symbolically hung on the fence, where the remains of the victims who were killed on this playground were still there evenmonths later.
Of the four shells fired from the VRS position, more than 70 were killed and more than 100 civilians were wounded who were at that moment on the playgrounds in front of the primary and high schools in Srebrenica. The total number of victims of this crime increased to 105, as several died on the way to the hospital and in the hospital, according to the data of the association from Srebrenica.
As Salihovic said, the memorial plaque has been removed several times, however, it still stands today in the same condition as it was the last time it was placed, Detektor reports.
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