Killing of Bosniaks in the Rogatica Area Marked

Former detainees and families of the killed people visited the former detention facilities in “Veljko Vlahovic” school building and “Rasadnik” building, where Bosniaks from the Rogatica area were detained and tortured during the war.  

Bakira Hasecic, President of the “Women, Victims of War” Association, which organised the ceremony, says that men and women, who were held in those facilities, were brutally abused and tortured and that some of them were killed.
 
“We sent a message to the Prosecution of BiH, asking it when the agreement concluded with Serbia, according to which the processing of crimes should begin, would become operational, considering the fact that we know that most of the crime perpetrators are in Serbia at present,” Hasecic said.
 
She said that only three persons have been sentenced for crimes in the Rogatica area so far, adding that they were not even the most responsible ones, so the victims request faster processing of these crimes.
 
“The situation is becoming even harder, because more and more victims die, time passes by and the criminals have still not been tried,” Hasecic said.
 
The victims first visited the former “Veljko Vlahovic” school building, where, according to Hasecic, the detention of Bosniaks and first mass rapes of girls and women began in 1992. After that the victims also visited the former “Rasadnik” detention camp.
 
So far the Court of BiH has pronounced second instance verdicts, sentencing Radisav Ljubinac, Dragoje Paunovic and Stojan Perkovic to a total of 42 years in prison for crimes in Rogatica.