Ethnic cleansing
In Bratunac, Serb forces detained thousands of Muslim males in May 1992 and kept them in a school and at the soccer ground. Memisevic said his brother was executed on May 11.
Only one person, Miroslav Deronjic, Bratunac’s municipal board president, has been convicted for the crimes in the area.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced by the UN war crimes court to 10 years in prison for the May 8, 1992, attack on neighbouring Glogova village in which 65 civilians were killed.
The Serbs, backed by the former Yugoslav army and Serbian paramilitaries, launched in 1992 an “ethnic cleansing” campaign that captured two-thirds of Bosnia and killed and expelled hundreds of thousands of non-Serbs.
Few return
Bratunac, like Srebrenica and most of eastern Bosnia – where Muslims were mainly in a majority before the war – is now in the Serb Republic.
Very few Muslims have returned to live there.
People like Sadija Hasanovic, who lost two sons whose bodies have not been found, are afraid to go back.
Hundreds of Bratunac’s Serbs protested several weeks ago against the original burial plan.
The row was defused after an intervention by Milorad Dodik, the Serb Republic’s prime minister, and the Muslims’ acceptance of the new location.
Sie haben keine Berechtigung Anhänge anzusehen. Anhänge sind ausgeblendet.
Mass funeral takes place in Serb Republic town after initial opposition from Serbs.
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