NEW SERIES ABOUT CRIMES AGAINST SERBS IN DRAKULIĆ, MOTIKE AND ŠARGOVAC FROM SATURDAY ON THE SRpska NAtional PORTAL

BANJA LUKA, JUNE 19 /SRNA/ - On Saturday, June 21, the SRpska NAtional poral will start broadcasting texts about Ustasha crime against Serbs in February 1942 in Drakulić, Motike and Šargovac, near Banja Luka.

The series contains excerpts from the book "Friars and Ustashas Slaughter" by author Lazar Lukajić, as well as upsetting testimonies of the rare survivors, who were children at the time, but are still haunted by images of torture, killings and the suffering of their families.

On the fateful February 7, 1942, in the villages of Drakulić, Šargovac and Motike, and a few days later in Piskavica and Ivanjska as well, the Ustashas committed one of the most monstrous massacres of Serbs. In just a few hours, between dawn and noon, in Drakulić, Šargovac and Motike, at least 2,300 Serbian civilians were killed. Among them were more than 550 children.

The killers did not use bullets, their weapons were bayonets, wire, mallets and knives. The crime was systematically carried out against unarmed, peaceful civilians. The executioners wore the uniforms of the Independent State of Croatia /NDH/, but also the habit of a Franciscan, because one of the leaders of this massacre was the Catholic priest Miroslav Filipović - Majstorović, known as Fra Satan. A man who replaced prayers with slaughter.

The series, prepared by journalist Danina Milaković and translated into English by Jovica Pejčić, can be read starting Saturday on SRNA's English-language portal srpskanational.com.