JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS REMAINING IN THE BUILDING OF FORMER PRISON CAMP FOR SERBS MOCKERY OF JUSTICE

ISTOČNO NOVO SARAJEVO, SEPTEMBER 19 /SRNA/ – The War Veterans Organisation Istočno Novo Sarajevo supports the initiative to relocate the institutions of the Court and Prosecutor's Office of BiH from the site of the former prison camp for Serbs Viktor Bubanj in Sarajevo, as it is a location where Muslims committed the most heinous crimes, said the head of the organization, Dragiša Tuševljak, in an interview with SRNA.

"This is absurd and a mockery of justice. Perhaps it is also a message to Serbs that their victims don't matter, because the these institutions' performance results tell us exactly that. At the very place where Serbs were imprisoned, tortured, and killed, it is there that the most trials and sentences are being handed down to our people," emphasized Tuševljak.

Tuševljak says it is inhumane and uncivilized for judicial institutions, which should deal with the prosecution of war crimes, to be located at a place where such a terrible tragedy took place for Sarajevo Serbs.

He says the fact that the FBiH authorities did not allow in 2003 the installation of a memorial plaque at the building, which would testify to the crimes committed by Muslims against Serbs, speaks volumes about the goals of those so-called judicial institutions that were supposed to bring justice and reconciliation.

The Association of Prison Camp Detainees of Republika Srpska announced that it would launch an initiative to relocate the Prosecutor's Office and the Court of BiH from the site of the infamous prison camp Viktor Bubanj in Sarajevo, the head of the Association Anđelko Nosović said earlier to SRNA.

"No one has yet been held accountable for the crimes committed against Serbs in the notorious Viktor Bubanj prison camp, through which about 5,000 Serbs passed, while around 500 Serbs were killed in that prison," emphasized Nosović.

About the crimes committed at the Viktor Bubanj prison camp, where after the war the High Representative Paddy Ashdown placed the Court of BiH by his imposed act, some former inmates have written books detailing the treatment they endured.

The authorities of the FBiH prevented the Association of Prison Camp Detainees of Republika Srpska on September 19, 2003, from placing a memorial plaque at the former Viktor Bubanj barracks in Sarajevo to commemorate the suffering of several thousand detained and 500 murdered Serbs while the barracks served as a wartime camp.