Family members of the victims of the genocide will gather today at the Godinjska Bara killing ground in Trnovo, the place where, 28 years ago, members of the infamous Serbian unit “Scorpions” killed six Bosniaks from Srebrenica, the youngest of whom was 16 and the oldest 36.
The place of their suffering will be visited by family members, relatives of the six murdered Srebrenica residents, representatives of the victims’ association and many citizens to pay their respects by laying flowers and reciting the Fatiha.
Six Bosniaks, boys and men from Srebrenica, were brutally killed by shots from behind by members of the Serbian unit “Scorpions” in July 1995 in Trnovo. Safet Fejzić (17), Azmir Alispahić (16), Sidik Salkić (36), Smail Ibrahimović (35), Dino Salihović (18) and Juso Delić (25) were killed.
The crime against six civilians of Bosniak nationality was recorded on camera by members of “Scorpion”. During the trial of Slobodan Milošević in 2005, a video of the shooting was released, after which it went around the world.
The video shows how several members of the “Scorpion”, some of whom have red berets on their heads, are taking six tied civilians out of the truck.
With derogatory words and insults, they are then taken into the forest, and then in the clearing, they kill four of them from behind with individual shots. The perpetrators then shot the victims on the ground in the head from close range. The remaining two prisoners were forced to carry the bodies, and then the “Scorpions” also killed them in a nearby semi-destroyed house.
The perpetrators of the crimes near Trnovo were arrested in Serbia and Croatia and sentenced to several years in prison.
“Scorpion” commander Slobodan Medić Boca was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and his brother Branislav Medić to 15 years. Petar Petrašević, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Milorad Momić was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Croatia, as was Slobodan Davidović.
In 2014, Slobodan Medić died with his entire family in a traffic accident in Serbia, during a free weekend on which he was released from serving his sentence.
