In Friday's open letter to the State Prosecutor's Office and the Interior Ministry, Documenta chief Vesna Terselic asked chief state prosecutor Mladen Bajic if ongoing proceedings would continue and if new ones would be launched for the murders which took place 15 years ago.
According to Documenta, there are grounds to fear that the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution will soon expire given that the Sisak Prosecutor's Office treats those killings as murders and not as war crimes against civilians, for which there is no statue of limitations.
Documenta said the Interior Ministry and the State Prosecutor's Office were inactive regarding those cases. The centre said that according to various local sources, between 120 and 130 civilians were killed in the Sisak area, mainly Serbs or people linked with the then Yugoslav Army.
Bajic was unavailable for comment, while the spokeswoman for the State Prosecutor's Office, Martina Mihordin, said the Office's position was stated earlier this week by Sisak County prosecutor Stipe Vrdoljak, who told Novi List daily that all unsolved murders would be investigated.
Documenta was set up by the Osijek Centre for Peace, Non-Violence and Human Rights, the Centre for Peace Studies, the Civil Committee on Human Rights, and the Croatian Helsinki Committee on Human Rights.