City: Zecovi Archives

Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons is excavating the site of a suspected mass grave containing 29 Bosniak women and children killed in the village of Zecovi in the Prijedor area in July 1992. Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons said on Thursday that it is now in the second day of an excavation in the Zecovi area, at a site where 29 female and child victims could be buried.

In this month’s edition, which is dedicated to crimes committed in Prijedor, you can hear stories by four survivors of dreadful executions.

A protected state prosecution witness testified at the trial of fourteen former Bosnian Serb fighters charged with attacking the village of Zecovi in 1992. The witness said he didn’t hear defendant Radomir Stojnic giving any orders, using the word “clean,” or approving any crime.

A protected state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of fourteen former members of Bosnian Serb forces said he remembered seeing bodies in Zecovi and Prijedor, near Gradina.

Testifying at the trial of fourteen Bosnian Serb fighters charged with crimes in Zecovi, a state prosecution witness said she heard that defendant Rade Grujcic took her son away in a personnel carrier with another perpetrator. The witness said her son’s remains were found in the Tomasica mass grave after the war.

A protected state prosecution witness described witnessing civilians being killed during an attack on the village of Zecovi near Prijedor.

A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of fourteen former members of Bosnian Serb military and police formations said he saw people lying in front of several houses during a military operation in the village of Zecovi in the municipality of Prijedor. The witness said he assumed they were dead.

A state prosecution witness said that during in the summer of 1992 he saw defendant Zoran Milunic during a shooting which took place in the village of Zecovi near Prijedor.

Testifying at the trial of fourteen defendants charged with attacking civilians in the village of Zecovi in the municipality of Prijedor, a state prosecution witness said she hid in the basement of a house in the village with women and children during the attack. Serb forces attacking the village then set the house on fire.

A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of fourteen former members of Bosnian Serb military and police forces said he saw defendant Zoran Stojnic point a rifle at the body of an executed civilian during an attack on the village of Zecovi near Prijedor.

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Former Police Officer Describes Attack on Civilians in Zecovi

Former Bosnian Serb Fighters Describe Seeing Dead Bodies and Burning Houses During Zecovi Operation

State Prosecution Witness Describes Zecovi Shooting of 1992

Witnesses Describe Serb Attack on Zecovi Civilians, Including Children

Former Police Officer Describes Execution of Civilians During Zecovi Attack

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