Alma Peković, daughter and sister of victims of war crime in Bijeljina from April 1992, the event captured on the photograph by the photo reporter Ron Haviv which shows that killers are members of Serb Volunteer Guard – the so-called Arkan’s Tigers, on April 2, 2015 filed a criminal complaint against anonymous persons to the Prosecutor’s Office for War Crimes.
“I filed the criminal complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office for War Crimes of Republika Srpska on April 2, 2015. Symbolically, my parents and my brother were killed on that day. The case is registered under the number KTR 54/15, and it is being led by the prosecutor Milan Petrović. We have contacted him several times and gave him certain names against whom charges might be pressed, but there is no advancement in that case”, Peković said.
Speaking of her family’s tragic fate, Peković said:
“I’ve heard from my mother for the last time on April 2, around nine in the morning, and that was the last time. My husband, my in-laws and I were still in our house. My husband called the colonel Masal, who was a Commandant of the barracks and personally knew my husband, to send him one campagnol in order to transfer us to the barracks, to be ‘safe’. Unfortunately, that same colonel did not do what my husband asked telling him that he is allowed to come to the barracks if he can, but that he cannot order that. Around 2 p.m. one neighbor told my husband that something terrible happened near my parents’ house and that it should be checked. My husband never told me that. I found out about it on Sunday, April 5, from my aunt”.
No member of the Serb Volunteer Guard has ever been accused. The Prosecution of the Hague Tribunal filed charges against Arkan in 1997, and that was revealed only after his death. He was accused for crimes against humanity, committed by the members of his unit in September 1995 in Sanski Most, based on personal and command responsibility, said the former director of Fond for Humanitarian Law Nataša Kandić.
Furthermore, Kandić said that crimes committed in Bijeljina on April 2, 1992 were not committed without witnesses present, one of them being Ron Haviv. Unfortunately, Haviv’s photograph did not bring anyone to justice yet.
(Source: nap.ba)
