Two days ago, on July 11th, photos appeared on the Internet that were taken from the private Instagram profiles of two female students of the Faculty of Criminalistics, Criminology and Security Studies in Sarajevo, in which they glorify war criminals.
On this occasion, the dean’s office decided to take steps.
Namely, as the screenshot recorded from the student’s Instagram profile, one of the two students raised three fingers in a T-shirt with the image of the Chetnik duke Mitar Maksimovic. The so-called “story”, that is, she published her Instagram story in the form of the “Close friends” option, which allows her post to be visible only to certain people.
Another student published a photo of the criminal Mladic with the text “Sentenced to immortality. You were and will remain our hero”.
Allegedly, some of their colleagues from the faculty and friends reacted to the given content, to which one of the students replied “It’s good we killed you.”
On this occasion, and in order to provide accurate and timely information, the Faculty of Criminalistics, Criminology and Security Studies headed by Dean Jasmin Ahic decided to react.
“On July 12th, the faculty received a report about the possible inappropriate behavior of a student on social networks, as well as about the content of private correspondence between students, and that the dean of the faculty has already this morning undertaken activities within his competence to determine the factual situation and circumstances regarding this report,” it was stated in the faculty statement signed yesterday by Dean Ahic.
Also, the reaction came from the University of Sarajevo – UNSA Student Parliament (SPUS), who say that they received with regret and anger the information that some students glorify convicted war criminals on their profiles, on the very day when the commemoration of the genocide in Srebrenica is being marked.
“In accordance with the existing rules of the University of Sarajevo, our representatives in the bodies and organs of the University will request immediate sanctions and the amendment of the regulations that would impose the strictest punishments for this type of behavior. We will also request that a mandatory subject be introduced under the compulsory subjects at the faculties of the social group on the study of genocide so that the young generations would learn about the suffering, systemic planning, and execution of the genocide against the Bosniaks of the ‘United Nations – UN protected zone’‘, SPUS stated.
