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Serbian Victims of Srebrenica Mujahedins Denied Justice

Oric’s Srebrenica mujahedins were killing every Serb they could get their hands on during the entire Bosnian civil war (1992-1995). Slavka Matic found the mutilated body of her husband next to their massacred daughter Snezana (29) on a doorstep of their house, while the remains of the other daughter aged 27, brutally killed after the most gruesome tortures, awaited her in the bathroom.

Belgrade daily Glas Javnosti reports that Bosnian Serbs have submitted lawsuit against Oric’s Srebrenica mujahedins, accompanied by the extensive documentation about Serbian victims in Srebrenica region, to the special War Crimes Prosecution office in Belgrade.

ICTY’s Carla Del Ponte Sent Documentation About Serbian Victims Back to Sarajevo

“All the documentation we sent to Carla Del Ponte, including more than 300 individual cases, has been returned by the Hague’s ICTY to a Bosnian court which, to this day, has not opened a single case. We have submitted documentation about suffering of Serbs in torture camps on the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, but Carla Del Ponte returned everything to Sarajevo, where she established a court in the very building where one of the most infamous camps Sarajevo Serbs were being tortured in was housed during Bosnian civil war,” said Branislav Dukic, head of the Society of Internment Camp Survivors in Republika Srpska.

“We must shed light on the truth about suffering of Serbian people on the territory of former Yugoslavia. And we shall never forget the atrocities committed over our kin by the Muslim death-hordes, led by the monstrous Naser Oric,” Dukic told Glas.

Documentation About 3,562 Srebrenica-Region Serbs Tortured and Killed by Oric’s Muslim Hordes

“On Friday, we have submitted to the special War Crimes Prosecutions’ office in Belgrade documentation about 3,562 Serbs killed in Srebrenica region, between 1992-1995. The collected evidence pertains to 52 Bosnian Muslims who were either giving the orders or have committed the crimes themselves, and who are responsible for the ethnic cleansing, war crimes and genocide in Srebrenica. I hope this material will throw a new light on Srebrenica. We are convinced that the special prosecution will find the way to move things forward from the dead end,” explains Dukic, pointing out that, when it comes to Bosnian Muslim Srebrenica victims, the list includes those who are declared dead, but are alive and well, presently living in United States.

“We demand that those who are responsible for the crimes face justice. No amounts of money can compensate such a loss, but we are seeking emotional and moral satisfaction that everyone who committed those crimes gets properly punished, instead of the atrocities committed over the Serbs being treated as if killing a stray animal or a Serb is the same thing,” Dukic said.

Bosnian Srebrenica Muslims Tortured and Killed 109 Serbs in Slavka’s Village in a Single Day

Slavka Matic from the village Bjelovac was also among the members of the Republika Srpska delegation which came to Belgrade to submit the lawsuit. Slavka has lost in one day, on December 14, 1994, two daughters, Snezana and Gordana, and husband Radivoje.

“I was away that day. When I came back I found them massacred at our doorsteps. What can I do now? Everything I worked for for 25 years those monsters have destroyed in one day. I want all the perpetrators punished. They were killing everything they could get their hands on, no matter whether female or male, old or young. They were killing children too. In one day, they killed 109 people in my village. Naser Oric’s troops are behind that. I want the truth to be known about the suffering of our loved ones. So that it is known how many of them have been murdered and in what manner,” explains her tragedy Slavka Matic.

According to the testimony of the survivors of the slaughter in Slavka’s village, Radivoje Matic was awaken by the shooting. As soon as he crossed his doorstep he fell down wounded. His daughter Snezana (29), ran to help him when she heard her father’s cries. Slavka Matic found husband Radivoje mutilated and, next to his body, remains of massacred Snezana. She found the body of the other daughter, Gordana (27), in the bathroom. Before they killed her, Oric’s mujahedins tortured her in a most monstrous way.

Chicken Coop Slaughter

President of the Society of Bratunac and Srebrenica Serbs, Milka Kovacic, who represents 82 mothers who have lost their loved ones, only wants the cry of the Serbian martyred women to be heard.

“No one has yet been called to account for the crimes committed over our kin from 1992 to 1995 in Srebrenica region. We have entire families that have been wiped out, and no one to report that they are all gone. Oric’s Muslims were killing the paralyzed, mothers and their children in the most gruesome manner. Oric’s men cut my husband’s throat in the chicken coop, where they slaughtered members of 80 families. Oric received only two years of [already served] imprisonment. It is painful to see the smile on the face of that ogre,” Milka Kovacic said.