Local Justice: Remembering Citizens Killed at Markale
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On Saturday, February 5, victims’ families and officials from the Sarajevo Canton will gather at the Markale marketplace in Sarajevo to commemorate the deaths of 67 innocent civilian victims.
Seventeen years ago, at 12:30 on February 5, 1994, a mine-thrower projectile was fired at the Markale open-air market from positions, which, several court verdicts have determined, were held by the Republika Srpska Army, VRS.
On that day 67 people were killed and 147 were injured.
The anniversary of the massacre will be marked by a ceremony in remembrance of the murdered citizens and the laying of flowers at the location where they were killed.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, sentenced Stanislav Galic, former Commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps with the VRS, to life imprisonment for crimes committed in the Sarajevo area, including the murder and wounding of civilians at Markale.
Radovan Karadzic, former president of Republika Srpska, is on trial before the ICTY on charges including the shelling of the Markale market in Sarajevo on February 5, 1994.
Karadzic is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of the laws and customs of war committed from 1992 to 1995.
The following people were killed at Markale market place on February 5, 1994: Senad Arnautovic, Ibrahim Babic, Mehmed Barucija, Camil Begic, Emir Begovic, Vahida Besic, Gordana Bogdanovic, Vaskrsije Bojinovic, Muhamed Borovina, Faruk Brkanic, Sakib Bulbul, Jelena Cavriz, Almasa Cehajic, Zlatko Cosic, Alija Cukojevic, Verica Cilimdzic, Smilja Delic, Ifet Drugovac, Dzevad Durmo, Fatima Durmo, Kemal Dzebo, Ismet Fazlic, Vejsil Ferhatbegovic, Dzevdet Fetahovic, Muhamed Fetahovic, Ahmed Foco, Majda Ganovic, Isma Gibovic, Rasema Hasanovic, Alija Hurko, Mirsada Ibrulj, Mustafa Imanic, Rasema Jazic, Razija Junuzovic, Hasija Karavdic, Mladen Klacar, Marija Knezevic, Selma Kovac, Ibro Krajcin, Sejda Kunic, Jozo Kvesic, Numo Lakaca, Ruza Malovic, Jadranka Minic, Nura Odzak, Mejra Orman, Hajrija Orucevic, Seid Prozorac, Smajo Rahic, Igor Rehar, Sabit Rizvo, Zahida Sablja, Nedzad Salihovic, Hajrija Smajic, Emina Srnja, Dzemo Subasic, Sacir Suljevic, Hasib Sabanovic, Ahmed Sehbajraktarevic, Bejto Skrijelj, Junuz Svrakic, Pasaga Tihic, Munib Torlakovic, Ruzdija Trbic, Dzemil Zecic, Muhamed Zubovic and Senad Zunic.
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