19th Anniversary of the Crime in Sjeverin
PRIBOJ, October 22nd, 2011 – 19th anniversary of the war crime committed in Sjeverin, in which 16 Bosniak civilians, citizens of the Republic of Serbia were killed, was marked on Saturday, October 22nd. Victims’ families and friends laid flowers and paid respect to their closest family members and friends in the village of Mioče (BiH), where they were taken off the bus by members of the paramilitary formation “Osvetnici” (Avengers). Representatives of political parties, representatives of Bosniak cultural and religious institutions from Sandžak and several representatives of non-governmental organizations (including representatives of the Humanitarian Law Center) attended the commemoration.
The 10th Sabotage Detachment, unit of the Main Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) participated in the commission of genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995. It has been established that members of this detachment took part in two mass executions of Muslims from Srebrenica.
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed a criminal complaint with the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia against more than 30 individuals, members of the former Territorial Defense (TO) and police station in Tenja (Croatia), as well as a number of members of the Novi Sad Corps of the Yugoslav National Army (JNA), members of military and civilian secret services, and groups under the command of Željko Ražnatović Arkan for war crimes committed in Tenja in 1991 against the civilian population and prisoners of war.