THE TRAGEDY OF MLAĐENOVIĆ FAMILY IN TWO WARS CAUSED BY SAME CRIMINALS

BRATUNAC, JULY 8 /SRNA/ - The tragedy of the family of Ljubomir Mlađenović from Jažestica, near Bratunac, after the massacre in World War II was repeated in 1992, when Muslim extremists killed his wife Savka and sons Dragan and Anđelko, who was beheaded and his head was delivered as a "trophy" to Naser Orić, and eyewitnesses accuse Kemal Mehmedović of this.

Mehmedović, who was from the Srebrenica village of Pale, beheaded the captured Anđelko in front of his mother Savka, whom he forced to watch, and then killed her too. Savka's remains were found in a nearby forest. The three Mladjenovićs were killed on August 8, 1992, along with six other Serb civilians in Ježestica.

The monstrosity of the crime is also evidenced by the fact that Mehmedović took Anđelko's head to Srebrenica, where Muslims kicked it around like a ball, and then tied it to a car and drove it through the streets of Srebrenica as a "trophy," inviting citizens to see what a "Chetnik head" looked like.

Mehmedović was recently detained by police in Austria, where he has lived for more than two decades. He was released after questioning, and the prosecutor's office has launched an investigation.

Ivanka Mlađenović, the wife of the murdered Anđelko who was left with her five-month-old daughter Anka after this crime, said that she is outraged by the international and BiH judiciary, because no one has been prosecuted for the monstrous murders of people from this village and the barbaric beheading of her husband.

"We no longer expect justice from the BiH judiciary, but we believe that God's justice will come and is already coming to the criminals," Ivanka pointed out.

According to the book "Testimony about the Unpunished Crime against Serbs in Podrinje," Ivanka said that she will never forget her loved ones, that a culture of remembrance is nurtured in this village and that the elders pass on to the younger generation the stories of suffering and sacrifices this Serbian village endured in the wars of the 20th century, the village which never recovered demographically.

Nenad Mlađenović, the son of the murdered Dragan, told SRNA that he attends the funeral service and the tribute to the victims every year and that he is disappointed with the work of the BiH judiciary, as well as the Hague Tribunal.

"My brother and I don't need anything, but we must not forget our father, uncle, grandmother and the other innocent people that were killed. We expect justice for the torture and cruel murders of our loved ones. They did not attack anyone and no one is responsible for their suffering," said Nenad Mlađenović, Ljubomir's grandson.

DOUBLE TRAGEDY OF THE MLAĐENOVIĆ FAMILY IN TWO WARS

Ljubomir Mlađenović's entire family was killed in World War II. Ljubomir remarried and formed a family that was killed by the descendants of the same unpunished enemy on August 8, 1992, when members of the so-called Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina invaded the village. Savka, Dragan, and Anđelko Mlađenović were among a total of nine residents of Ježestica who were killed by Muslim soldiers at that time, and the village was looted and burned.

In this Bratunac village, Muslim forces killed a total of 39 Serbian civilians, including eight women, during the last war. Ježestica also suffered during World War II, when its Muslim neighbors killed 162 members of the Serb people, only a few of whom were soldiers. No one was held accountable for these crimes committed against Serbs in both wars.

The double tragedy of Ljubomir Mlađenović, both in 1942 and 1992, best testifies to the continuity of Serbian suffering, the repetition of history, and the continuous efforts of Muslims to eradicate everything Serbian in this area.

In an attack by Muslim thugs integrated into fascist Ustasha units on the Serb village of Ježestica in 1942, almost all the locals were killed - children, women, and the elderly, or 161 Serb victims.

Ljubomir Mlađenović's father, mother, three-year-old daughter Jela, and wife, who was pregnant with their second child, were killed on their doorstep in 1942. The wife was brutally tortured and dismembered while pregnant by Muslims, her immediate neighbors from Bratunac and Srebrenica.

His brother Petar Mlađenović, his wife and their four daughters were also killed. Ljubomir was captured and taken to a camp, from where he returned only after World War II. The perpetrators of this monstrous crime remained unpunished.

In the genocide committed in Podrinje from 1941 to 1945 by Muslims from Srebrenica and Bratunac, as members of Ustasha units, at least 6,469 Serbs were killed, including around 400 children, according to documents on the suffering of Serbs in the 20th century.

Ljubomir, then a young 23-year-old man, lost his entire family in one day. However, after a certain time and the end of World War II, Ljubomir remarried and had six children with his wife Savka - four sons and two daughters.

Exactly 50 years later, the crime was repeated in the same place. The tragedy of the Mlađenović family began again on July 12, 1992, when Ljubomir was seriously wounded while working in the field.

He was wounded by Muslim extremists from Srebrenica, under the command of Naser Orić, who, on the great Orthodox holiday of St. Peter's Day in 1992, embarked on a bloody campaign to finish what their ancestors had started.

Ljubomir, his wife Savka, their son Dragan, and the decapitated body of their son Anđelko were buried in the Bratunac cemetery. Anđelko's wife Ivanka and daughter Anka are still searching for his head.

SERB PEOPLE IN PODRINJE - VICTIMS OF DECADE-LONG GENOCIDE

If we were to use the definitions and terminology of the Hague Tribunal, the Mlađenović family and the Serb people in Podrinje are victims of a decades-long criminal enterprise, or rather genocide.

German formations were always helped by local Muslims in World War II, and in the last war in BiH, they continued to do so independently, with no regard for Serb victims.

The same attitude and policy have prevailed since the outbreak of World War I, only today different means and methods of its implementation are used. However, the goal of this policy is the same - blaming the Serbs and the disappearance of the Serb people from the left bank of the Drina at any cost.

The perpetrators of crimes against the Serb people in the Middle Podrinje region today move freely in these areas and defy, showing that there is neither trial nor justice for their crimes. /to be continued/