Instead of continuously denying the Tuzlanska kapija massacre and hiding from justice in the case of \u0110uki\u0107, as well as having Mirko Vru\u0107ini\u0107, charged with the crimes in Sanski Most, recently escape from BiH to Serbia, we demand that the prosecutor\u2019s offices and courts in both states collaborate so that war criminals can be prosecuted.<\/p>\n
Let us remind you that, on May 25, 1992, members of the units \u2018Green Berets\u2019 and \u2018Patriotic League\u2019 and paramilitary units of the Croatian Defence Forces (HOS) and Croatian Defence Council (HVO) attacked the village of Bradina, Konjic municipality, and committed a crime against the Serb civilians. From May 25 to 27, 48 civilians were killed and around 240 villagers were taken to the \u010celebi\u0107i prison camp.<\/p>\n
Esad Rami\u0107, Omer Bori\u0107, \u0160efik Nik\u0161i\u0107, Adnan Alikadi\u0107, Mitko Pirki\u0107, Red\u017eo Bali\u0107, Hamed Lukomirk, Safaudin \u0106osi\u0107, Muhamed Caki\u0107, Ismet Hebibovi\u0107, Enes Jahi\u0107, Senadin \u0106ibo, and \u017deljko \u0160imunovi\u0107 are standing trial before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the crimes committed against the Serb civilian population in the Konjic area from May 1992 to May 1993, including Bradina.<\/p>\n
On May 1995, from the positions of the Republika Srpska Army, the city of Tuzla, UN Safe Area (UN Resolution 824 of May 6 1993) was shelled, resulting in 71 persons killed and more than a hundred injured, mostly young people who decided to go for a walk and see their friends that May evening. The majority of the killed were persons between 18 and 25 years of age; the youngest victim, Sandro Kalesi\u0107, was only two years old.<\/p>\n
On June 12 2009, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina convicted Novak \u0110uki\u0107, former commander of the Tactical Group Ozren of the Republika Srpska Army, and sentenced him to the imprisonment of 25 years for the war crime against civilian population. After the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina vacated this judgment, in June 2014, the Court of BiH reduced \u0110uki\u0107\u2019s sentence to 20 years. In the period between the two judgments, Novak \u0110uki\u0107 escaped to Serbia, allegedly for medical treatment.<\/p>\n
A warrant was issued against \u0110uki\u0107 in 2014, after which it was demanded that Serbia take over the judgment. The procedure for recognising and executing the final and enforceable criminal judgment of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Novak \u0110uki\u0107 has been stalling before the War Crimes Department of the Higher Court in Belgrade since February 2016. Although more than five years passed, the Higher Court announced that, because of his mental state, \u0110uki\u0107 would not attend the trial until September 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the anniversary of the crimes in Bradina and Tuzlanska kapija, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Serbia (YIHR Serbia) and Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina (YIHR BiH) are honouring the victims of these crimes, demanding that the judicial authorities in Serbia and BiH fairly and efficiently complete court proceedings, and that political institutions stop the practice of hiding and glorifying war criminals. ","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[57],"tags":[1447,1082,1083,1089],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n