On Friday, the families of more than 60 murdered people from Donji Hadzici marked the 31st anniversary of the attack by the Serbian army and police on this place, appealing to reveal the locations of the bodies of more than 20 people who have not been found so far and to punish those responsible for their murders.
The names of the Mehdi brothers – Ismail and Ibrahim are written on the memorial plaque to the fallen residents of Donji Hadzici. They, along with other residents, were taken from their homes more than 30 years ago. Lejla Mehdi Smajlovski was only two years old when her father Ismail was taken away. She did not remember him and never learned about his fate.
“I can’t even imagine how he was killed, how his life ended. We never found him, neither him nor my late uncle,” says Lejla, adding that they were taken by pre-war neighbors.
Amila Buzo, president of the Association of Families of Martyrs and Fallen Soldiers of Hadzici Municipality, stated that the residents of Donji Hadzici were first taken to prison camps and tortured, after which they were killed. The remains of 28 people were exhumed, she adds, while 26 of them are still being searched for. She is still searching for her father, who was taken, in a group of 46 people, from the “Slavisa Vajner Cica” barracks in Lukavica.
“The search has been going on for years, but we still don’t have any information. People are known by name and surname who did it, but no one was charged, and no one has ever been arrested. They tried, they searched. I was in Krupac for a month when they were digging, searching every day. It’s terrible what a person goes through, while you are waiting for one small bone from your father to be found. It’s hard,” Amila emphasized.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) sentenced Rade Veselinovic to seven and a half years in prison for the crimes committed in Hadzici.
Last year, the Sarajevo Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office charged Goran Fific and Mirjana Milidrag with crimes committed against the civilian population in the Hadzici area in 1992, Detektor reports.
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