SLUČAJEVI IZ PRAKSE THE COUNTRY: HUMAN RIGHTS Photo: Građanska alijansa 7
10 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE - INSIGHT VIEW MILLIONS FOR VICTIMS – NO ONE IS GUILTY Twenty years long waiting for justice War crimes Deportations In May 1992, citizens from Bosnia and Herzegovina (refugees) were illegally arrested and then deported by hostile armed forces of Serbs in BiH. Many of the refugees were killed. According to some findings, more than 66 Muslim refugees were arrested and deported. Nine persons were accused of war crimes for the deportation of Bosnian refugees from the territory of Montenegro during 1992. All the accused persons were acquitted. Bukovica During the 90s, Bukovica was the target of ethnic cleansing. At the beginning of 1992, 24 villages and 221 people were displaced. Between 1992 and 1995, six civilians were killed, 11 were kidnapped, 70 were physically tortured, two committed suicide after being tortured, and eight houses and the village mosque were burned. All the accused persons were acquitted. Kaluđerski laz War crimes in Kaluđerski laz happened in 1999 in the municipality of Rožaje. In April 1999, 23 Albanian civilians were killed in Kaluđerski laz. Among these people were children, women, and the elderly. All the accused persons were acquitted. Morinj I.M. was punished with a four-year prison sentence, Š.L. and B.G. with three-year sentences, and I.G. was punished with a two year sentence, all for the 1991 and 1992 torture of Croatian soldiers, who were taken to the war front prison near Dubrovnik, and then to the camp Morinj, near Kotor. Štrpci In Štrpci, in 1993, 19 people were taken from the train number 671, on the road from Belgrade to Bar. Eighteen of them were Islamic and one person was Croat. After they were abused, these people were killed. Their remains have not been found yet. Until recently, corpses of only three persons had been found. Only Nebojša Ranisavljević was accused for the crime committed in Štrpci against Islamic civilians, and was punished with a 15-year prison sentence that expired on 19 October, 2011. The trial revealed that Milan Lukić organized this crime. Lukić was punished with a life sentence in Hague for war crimes committed during the 90s, but has never been on trial for the above mentioned crime. Three years ago, the investigation was opened again, in the context of regional cooperation between the Prosecution Offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. This resulted in the arrests of 15 persons in 2014, five persons in Serbia, and ten persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The youngest victim of this crime was 16 years old and the eldest was 59. Dubrovnik Nine moths long siege of Dubrovnik started on 1 October 1991. Pavle Strugar, retired Montenegrin general in the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and commander Miodrag Jokić, were found guilty for war crimes committed during the siege of Dubrovnik. They were sentenced by the International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Montenegrin institutions still have not processed the attack on Dubrovnik, although large number of war crimes against civilians was committed at the time of siege and bombing of the city, destruction and plunder of property. 8