Two Srebrenica Victims Killed by Serb ‘Scorpions’ Identified

Two out of six Bosniak men from Srebrenica who were shot by members of the Scorpions paramilitary unit in 1995 have now been identified after their remains exhumed from a mass grave at Rogoj mountain pass in the Trnovo municipality in June last year, it was announced on Friday.

“Data available to the Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina suggests that some of the remains found match the identities of two out of six Bosniak men who were shot by members of the Scorpions paramilitary unit in Godinjske Bare [a village in the Trnovo municipality] in 1995,” the Institute said in a statement.

It said that the grave in which their remains were found was discovered in a forested area of Rogoj, where natural four-metre-deep sinkholes were used to hide the victims.

“Some parts of the human skeletons were in plastic bags,” it added.

Emza Fazlic of the Missing Persons Institute said that the victims’ families are expected to confirm their identities after DNA analysis.

After the shooting the victims were identified as Safet Fejzic, Azmir Alispahic, Sidik Salkic, Smail Ibrahimovic, Dino Salihovic and Juso Delic.

The Scorpions recorded the killings on video and the tape was shown at the Hague Tribunal during the trial of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, and during the trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic.

The recording shows several Scorpions fighters, some wearing red berets, taking the six Bosniak civilians from a truck to a forest near Trnovo, insulting them along the way.

They shoot four of them in the back, then in the head at close range.

The two remaining prisoners are forced to carry the bodies away, before the Scorpions fighters kill them too in a nearby, half-destroyed house.

The perpetrators were arrested in Serbia and Croatia and convicted.

The Scorpions’ commander, Slobodan Medic, alias Boca, was sentenced to 20 years, while his brother Branislav Medic got 15 years.

Petar Petrasevic, who admitted guilt, was sentenced to 13 years in prison, while Milorad Momic and Slobodan Davidovic were sentenced to 15 years each.

In 2014, Slobodan Medic was killed in a car accident in Serbia with his entire family during a weekend’s leave from serving his sentence.