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The victims of this crime are: Esad Kapetanovi\u0107, Ilijaz Li\u010dina, Fehim Bakija, \u0160e\u0107o Softi\u0107, Rifat Husovi\u0107, Halil Zup\u010devi\u0107, Senad \u0110e\u010devi\u0107, Jusuf Rastoder, Ismet Baba\u010di\u0107, Tomo Buzov, Adem Alomerovi\u0107, Muhedin Hani\u0107, Safet Preljevi\u0107, D\u017eafer Topuzovi\u0107, Rasim \u0106ori\u0107, Fikret Memovi\u0107, Fevzija Zekovi\u0107, Nijazim Kajevi\u0107, Zvjezdan Zuli\u010di\u0107 and one unidentified person. The victims were from both Serbia and Montenegro, from Belgrade, Prijepolje, Bijelo Polje and Podgorica. The oldest victim was 59 and the youngest 16.<\/p>\n

To date, the mortal remains of only four victims have been found. The body of Halil Zup\u010devi\u0107 was discovered in late 2009 in the village of Sjeda\u010da on the bank of Lake Peru\u0107ac, whilst the mortal remains of Rasim \u0106ori\u0107, Jusuf Rastoder and Ilijaz Li\u010dina were discovered at the same location in 2010. The search for the other bodies is still ongoing.<\/p>\n

So far, only Neboj\u0161a Ranisavljevi\u0107 and Mi\u0107o Jovi\u010di\u0107 have been convicted of this crime. Neboj\u0161a Ranisavljevi\u0107 was sentenced before the Higher Court in Bijelo Polje (Montenegro) in 2003 to 15 years in prison. Mi\u0107o Jovi\u010di\u0107, who was tried before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison.<\/p>\n

Proceedings for the crime in \u0160trpci are currently ongoing before the courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. The trial of ten indictees is ongoing before the Court of BiH, including Luka Dragi\u010devi\u0107, commander of the VRS Vi\u0161egrad Brigade, and Boban Indji\u0107, commander of the Intervention Unit of the Vi\u0161egrad Brigade.<\/p>\n

The War Crimes Chamber of the Higher Court in Belgrade has an ongoing proceeding against five members of the VRS Vi\u0161egrad Brigade for crimes committed in \u0160trpci; they are charged as direct perpetrators.<\/p>\n

The families of the victims, most of whom are Serbian citizens, have been ignored by state authorities responsible for the care of civilian victims of war (the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs) for over two decades. Owing to the discriminatory legal framework in Serbia, victims\u2019 families are deprived of the right to obtain the status of family members of civilian victims of war simply because their family members were killed outside the territory of Serbia, although they were its citizens. This would provide them with practically and symbolically significant personal benefits in the form of monthly cash allowances and social support.<\/p>\n

The victims and their associations, as well as the HLC<\/a> and other civil society organisations, have been pointing to the inadequacy of the existing legal provisions and the discriminatory manner of their implementation for years. Despite the serious objections from domestic and international actors, the law has not yet been amended; instead, in August 2018, the Ministry of Labour drafted the Law on Veteran and Disability Benefits, which retains discriminatory solutions<\/a>.<\/u><\/p>\n

The HLC, Women in Black, Sand\u017eak Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, and Youth Initiative for Human Rights urge the Serbian institutions to prosecute this crime effectively, and the Ministry of Labour and other relevant institutions to pass a new law based on the Model Law <\/a>on the rights of civilian victims of human rights violations committed during and in connection with armed conflicts in the period 1991 to 2001, which contains normative solutions for the exercise of victims\u2019 rights as formulated under international human rights treaties and in accordance with other international standards for providing reparations to victims.<\/p>\n

The victims of the \u0160trpci Crime are invisible in the official memory policy of Serbia. In 2009, the local government in Prijepolje erected <\/a>a memorial to the nine killed from Prijepolje and provided symbolic financial assistance to their families, while local officials participate in organising and speaking to mark the anniversary of the abduction. This is one of the few positive examples of the attitude of Serbian institutions towards victims coming from the minority ethnic community. However, while local governments and NGOs commemorate the anniversary of the abduction in \u0160trpci every year, the victims of this crime, as well as all non-Serb victims of the armed conflicts in the 1990s, remain invisible in state-level memorialisation practices, which focus solely on Serb victims, and glorify the role of the army as well as of convicted and non-convicted war criminals.<\/p>\n

The HLC, Women in Black, Sand\u017eak Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms and Youth Initiative for Human Rights will mark the 27th anniversary of the crime in \u0160trpci on Thursday, 27 February 2020, beginning at 3:48PM in Knez Mihailova Street (in front of the Kafana \u2018Ruski Car\u2019), and on this occasion, they invite citizens, representatives of institutions, media and NGOs to join them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, February 27, 2020, it will be 27 years since the crime in \u0160trpci (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in which members of the Army of the Republic of Srpska (VRS) kidnapped and killed 20 non-Serb civilians, passengers on a train travelling from Belgrade to Bar. The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), Women in Black, Sand\u017eak Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms and Youth Initiative for Human Rights recall the public\u2019s attention to the fact that victims\u2019 families have been waiting for judicial justice in Serbia, and the recognition of their status as family members of civilian victims of war, for 27 years now. 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