JELIĆ: TRUTH AND JUSTICE DO NOT HAVE EXPIRY DATE

SIJEKOVAC, MARCH 26 /SRNA/ - SNSD MP in the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, Petar Jelić, says in Sijekovac, which has marked today 33 years since the crime against the Serbs, that truth and justice have no expiry date.

"We must never forget their sacrifice. May the eternal glory be with them," Jelić told SRNA.

Jelić, as a member of the delegation of the Srpska National Assembly, with colleagues Pero Đurić and Slaviša Marković, laid flowers at the memorial cross near the church in Sijekovac.

Members of the regular Croatian army, together with paramilitary Croat-Muslim units from BiH and Croatia, killed nine Serb civilians in Sijekovac on March 26, 1992, and another 37 Serbs in the following days.

This is the first mass crime committed in BiH before the beginning of the conflict.

46 Serb civilians were killed in Sijekovac in 1992, according to the documents of the Brod War Veterans Organisation.

The occupation by Croatian forces ended on October 7, 1992, when General Slavko Lisica liberated the area of Brod Municipality with a carefully planned military operation.

The commemoration is organised by the Srpska Government’s Committee nurturing the tradition of liberation wars.