SARAJEVO, Sept 19 (Hina) - Police on Friday prevented a group of former Bosnian Serb war prisoners from entering the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina and placing a plaque commemorating the Serbs who had been imprisoned and allegedly killed
in the building, which during the war housed the Bosnian army military court.
SARAJEVO, Sept 19 (Hina) - Police on Friday prevented a group of
former Bosnian Serb war prisoners from entering the Court of
Bosnia-Herzegovina and placing a plaque commemorating the Serbs
who had been imprisoned and allegedly killed in the building, which
during the war housed the Bosnian army military court. #L#
Some 350 Serbs who claim to have been imprisoned in camps and
prisons on territory controlled by the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina
during the war, arrived in front of the cordoned-off building in the
company of the Serb member of the state presidency, Borislav
Paravac.
The police warned the group that they did not have permission to
enter the court premises or place a memorial plaque there.
After a short while, without trying to forcibly approach the
building, the group dispersed and returned to the Bosnian Serb
entity.
A representative of the association of former detention camp
inmates from Banja Luka, Slavko Jovicic, said the association would
not give up its plan to put up monuments in memory of the Serbs
killed in Sarajevo.
He reiterated that in Sarajevo alone there had been more than 120
detention camps during the war, in which exclusively Serbs were
imprisoned and killed.
(hina) rml