The non-governmental organizations Human Rights Fund, Youth Initiative for Human Rights and Women in Black organized yesterday a street campaign in Belgrade in memory of the kidnapping in Štrpci that took place in February 1993.
The campaign was symbolically organized at 3:48 p.m., at the same time when the train, out of which 20 people were taken and later murdered, stopped 23 years ago.
Nataša Kandić, founder and former director of the Human Rights Fund, said that the gathering was dedicated to the memory of the people who were passengers in the train which stopped in Štrpci and out of which those people were taken and are unaccounted ever since.
“There are many data, many facts, many evidence to shed light on the crime committed in Štrpci, the war crime, and to make Serbia start remembering what happened so that situations which we encountered with today never happen again, that people walk by and say: ‘Look at these fools, they are standing here because of some killed Muslims’,” Kandić said.
Kandić expressed confidence that one day “people will stop at 3:48, that a large number of people will know that they should stop then and that an hour later something happened that does not happen in a normal country”.
Kandić said that this gathering is dedicated to the future as well, to the remembrance of that day and to keep in mind that the state has done nothing for full 23 years.
Nebojša Ranisavljević is the only person sentenced for the crime in Štrpci. In the trial procedure led against him before the High Court in Bijelo Polje, it was stated that a group of members of the Višegrad brigade, led by Milan Lukić, forcibly stopped the train at the station in Štrpci and took out 18 Bosniaks passengers, one Croat passenger and one unidentified person who were then taken to the premises of the elementary school in Prelovo near Višegrad. Remains of four victims have been found until today.
(Source: klix.ba)
