Another September is approaching, the 32nd in a row, since Faruk Bilalic was taken from his home in Bijeljina and killed, and his body was taken by the Drina to neighboring Serbia at the age of less than 20. His father Nasrudin says that he was considerate and good and that he wonders every day why he was killed.
Bilalic says that after the start of the war, the situation in Bijeljina seemed to calm down for a few months and that is why they stayed until he received a call from his wife, who informed him that their son had been taken away from home and had not returned.
Faruk was working that day, his father says and had just arrived home when they came to pick him up.
Nasrudin later found out that a police van stopped their younger son Elvir, who was riding a bicycle into the city, and that they asked him about his brother Faruk. In order to show them where their house was, Elvir got into a van, in which there were five policemen.
He would later find out that his son was interrogated by Dragan Cobic aka Combe, who told his wife: “Your son is my schoolmate, don’t worry.”
The next day, Nasrudin went to the police station, where they told him that, according to the records, there was no record of him being taken into custody. There he meets the married couple Salkovic : Demir and Bedrija, who came to look for their son Mustafa.
The international police helped Bilalic file a complaint, which was only then accepted by the Court in Bijeljina.
Nasrudin says that many did not testify out of fear, that many passed away, and that everything came down to “no one seeing anything”. He states that Dragan Cobic stated at the trial in Bijeljina that he did not kill Faruk.
Cobic was acquitted of the charge that, as a member of the Intervention Platoon of the Police Station in Bijeljina, together with four other unknown persons, he detained Mustafa Salkovicand Faruk Bilalic and took them to an unknown direction, where they were killed.
However, he would like to address the person who killed his son and ask: ”Why? You don’t even know why you killed him, nor does he know why he was killed.”, N1 writes.
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