Officials of Republika Srpska (RS) and Serbia, delegations, and representatives of organizations stemming from the last war laid wreaths at the Memorial Cross at the cemetery in Bratunac yesterday and paid their respects to around 3.267 Serbs who died in central Podrinje and Birac.
The wreath was laid by the Serbian member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Presidency Milorad Dodik, the Prime Minister of the RS Radovan Viskovic, the Minister of Labor and Veterans and Disability Protection Dusko Milunovic, the State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor of Serbia Miodrag Kapor, the delegation of the National Assembly of the RS (NARS), the delegation of Serbian deputies in the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH (PABiH), delegations in the institutions of the RS and BiH, mayors of the municipalities of the Birac region and the city of Zvornik, and the municipalities of Gornji Podrinje, as well as Jagodina and Niksic.
Flowers were also laid by the delegation of the Third Infantry Regiment, the Veterans’ Organization of RS and several municipal veterans’ organizations, camp inmates, families of captured and missing and dead fighters and civilians, as well as representatives of non-governmental and international organizations.
Previously, His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije served a memorial service for the martyred Serbs at the Memorial Cross at the Bratunac cemetery.
Officials’ address and an artistic program dedicated to the suffering of the Serbs of central Podrinje and Birac were scheduled at 12:00 p.m. at Milos Obilic Square in Bratunac.
All Serbian victims from central Podrinje and Birac are commemorated in the past war, and it is organized on the occasion of 30 years since the great suffering of Serbs on St. Peter’s Day in 1992 in the villages around Srebrenica and Bratunac when 69 soldiers and civilians were killed and 22 soldiers and civilians were captured, none of whom survived.
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