March 25, 1992 Sijekovac, Republica Srpska, Bosnia And Herzegovina
Srpski Brod: Killed Civilians in Sjekovac
The first big massacre against Serb civilians in Bosnia & Hercegovina, participants of a commemoration held this Wednesday in Sjekovac, near Srpski Brod, requested the BiH authorities to initiate a charge against Croatia for aggression against BiH. More than 20 civilians had been killed on today’s data in 1992 in Sjekovac, near Srpski Brod. That had been an announcement of three-year long BiH tragedy and come back of what had been seen in the Second World War. Clergy of the Serb Orthodox Church from Church Municipalities of Srpski Brod and Derventa served this Wednesday a requiem for all killed people in that Local Community. All had begun on 25 March, when the whole Martics family had been liquidated, and when more than 20 civilians had been killed on 26 March in Sjekovac. Many people have been still missing because their bodies have not been found. Dusan Kostadinovic, the President of Association of Families of Killed solders from Srpski Brod, spoke before about 1000 people that attended the remembering on that tragic event. Kostadinovic pointed out that opened aggression of Croatian on BiH had started between 15 and 16 September 1991, when all Serb settlements in Srpski Brod Municipality had been shot at with artillery weapons from Croatia, and when the first victim had fallen near brick-factory in Klakaru. The aggression had been continued on 3 March in 1992. Tragically liquidations of Serb people had started on 25 and 26 March 1992. The requiem for innocent victims was carried out before an unfinished chapel in Sjekovac. Participants of the requiem had an opportunity to see an exhibition of photographs, respectively, documents on sufferings of Serbs in camps that had been organized for Serbs after occupation in Srpski Brod Municipality. –BV
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CRIMINAL CHARGES
for the act of genocide against the Serb nation in Article 141 of the Penal Code of the S.F.R.Y. defined and punishable according to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes of Genocide adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, and War Crimes against the civilian population in Article 142. of the Penal Code of the S.F.R.Y. defined and punishable according to the 1949 Geneva Convention on the Protection of civilians during the wartime, against:
1 .Causevic Nijaz (Muslim), nickname 'Medo', son of father Muhib and mother Djuka, born on 13 March 1953 in village Sijekovac, Municipality of the city of Bosanski Brod (Bosnia and Herzegovina - BIH);
2, Pohara Armin (Muslim), son of father Esad, born on 15 June 1958 in Slavonski Brod (Croatia);
3. Brzic Ivan (Croatian), son of father liija and mother Andja, born on 15 November 1949 in village Vukicevici, Municipality of Jajce (BIH);
4. Prkacin Ante (Croatian), from Slavonski Brod (Croatia), other information about him not available, investigation is underway;
5. Obradovic Rade (Croatian), from Slavonski Brod (Croatia), other information about him not available, investigation is underway;
6. Kovacevic Zemir (Muslim), son of father Hasim, born on 8 August 1966 in Slavonski Brod;
7. Manota Andrija (Croatian), son of father Anton, born on 9 May 1956 in village Sijekovac, Municipality of Bosanski Brod;
8. Kalenderovic Jasmin (Muslim), nickname 'Kalc', son of father Naiz and mother Marija, born on 21 February 1966 in Sijekovac;
9. Kalenderovic Drago (Muslim), nickname 'Kalc', son of father Naiz and mother Marija, born on 8 August 1963 in Slavonski Brod;
10. Pinjagic Hibo (Muslim), son of father Mustafa, born on 25 September 1964 in Slavonski Brod;
11. Pinjagic Huso (Muslim), son of father Mustafa, born on 19 November 1955 in Sijekovac;
12. Dugalic Ejub (Muslim), son of father Ibrahim, born on 16 Apdl 1945 in Sijekovac; 13. Dugalic ldriz (Muslim), nickname 'Gigo', son of father Ibrahim, born on 9 May 1939 in Sijekovac;
14. Soldan lvko (Croatian), son of father Anto, born on 29 July 1938 in village Zboriste, Municipality of city of Bosanski Brod;
15. Kovacevic Selver (Muslim), nickname 'Suljo', son of father Hasib, from Sijekovac, identification underway;
16. Dobojcic Benjamin (Muslim), son of father Refik and mother Mirsada, born on 15 November 1966 in Sijekovac;
17. Kovacevic Salko (Muslim), nickname 'Dvogus' from Sijekovac, identification underway;
18. Soidan Tomo (Croatian), son of father Sime, born on 23 May 1925 in Gornje Mocila, Municipality of Bosanski Brod;
19. Saicin Rasid (Muslim), son of father Kasim, born on 1 March 1946 in Sijekovac;
20. Causevic lzet (Muslim), son of father Alaga, born on 8 May 1964 in Sijekovac;
21. Kovacevic Blazen (Croatian), nickname 'Murjak', son on father Luka, born on 20 November 1950 in Novo Selo, Municipality of Bosanski Brod;
22. Blazevic Drago (Croatian), other information unknown, identification underway-,
23. Kovacevic Semir (Muslim), son of father Masib, other information unknown, identification underway;
24. Memisevic Salko (Muslim), nickname 'Djogusa', son of father Salko, born on 4 March 1959 in Sijekovac;
25. Kovacevic Suad (Muslim), nickname 'Nele', son of father Mujo, identification underway;
26. Buketa Ivan (Croatian), son of father Slavko, born on 19 August 1958 in Slavonski Brod;
27. Besirevic Adem (Muslim), son of father Abid, born on 12 May 1942 in village Jales, Municipality of Foca (SIH);
28. Dobojcic Dino (Muslim), son of father Refik from Sijekovac;
29. Rubil Goran (Croatian), son of father Jozo, born on 27 May 1964 in Slavonski Brod; 30. Kljajic Iiija (Croatian), from village Kricanovo, Municipality of Bosanski Brod, other information unknown;
31. Stipic Nedo (Croatian), information unknown, identification underway;
32. Kljajic Ranko (Croatian), from village Kricanovo, Municipality of Bosanski Brod, other information unknown, identification underway;
33. Dugalic Amir (Muslim), son of father Ejub, born on 5 March 1975 in Sijekovac;
34. Adjulovic Ahmed (Muslim), nickname 'Raka', son of father Mehmed, born on 24 November 1970 in Sijekovac;
35. Grgic Simo (Croatian), son of father Pejo, born on 28 August 1950 in Slavonski Brod.
36. Smajic Emir (Muslim), nickname 'Emko', born on 12 August 1952 in Sijekovac;
37. Djakovic Dragan (Croatian), nickname 'Bokser', other information unknown, dentification underway;
38. Katinic Mirko (Croatian), son of father Luka, born on 28 April 1934 in Kricanovo, Aunicipality of Brod;
39. Katinic Simo (Croatian), son of father Luka, born on 10 January 1937 in Kricanovo, Aunicipality of Brod;
40. Kljucevic Franjo (Croatian), son of father Jakov from D. Mocila, identification inderway;
4l. Kljucevic Jozo (Croatia), son of father Jakov from D.Mocila, identification underway;
42. Cicak Josip (Croatian), son of father Luka from Ruza, born on 14 February 1963 in Doboj;
43. Besirevic Hakija (Muslim), son of father Abid and mother Hana, born on 1 0 Jovember 1951 in Jelas, Municipality of Foca;
44. Blazevic Pejo (Croatian), son of father Stipe and mother Ruza, born on 5 September 1957 in Novo Selo, Municipality of Bosanski Brod;
45. Jasarevic Ago (Muslim), son of father Kasim, born on I 1 September 1968 in Slavonski Brod;
46. Causevic Meho (Muslim), son of father Alaga and mother Selveta, other information inknown, investigation underway;
47. Bajrovic Salem (Muslim), son of father Pasa, allegedly from Sijekovac, investigation inderway;
48. Fulan Hajrudin (Muslim), son of father Mujo and mother Alija, born on 17 March 1960 in Sijekovac;
49. Kljajic Rudolf (Croatian), son of father Nikola, investigation underway;
50. Kljajic Jozo (Croatian), son of father Ratomir, investigation underway;
5l. Misic Smajo (Muslim), son of Ibrahim, born on 21 April 1967 in Sijekovac;
52. Kruljac Miaden (Croatian), other information unknown, investigation is underway; 53. Celebija Rudo (Croatian), other information unknown, investigation is underway; 54. Celebija Pero (Croatian), other information unknown, investigation is underway;
55. Zepcan Refik (Muslim), nickname 'Refo', son of father lbro, born on 9 August 1937 Kolibe Gornje, Municipality of Brod;
56. Lukic Tadija (Croatian), son of father Marko, born on 1 October 1928 in Kricanovo, Aunicipality of Brod;
57. Lukic Nedeljko (Croatian), nickname ‘Nedo’, son of father Tadija, born on 4 march 1951 in Kricanovo, Municipality of Brod;
58. Mlivic Smajo (Muslim), son of father Saafet, investigation underway;
59. Lapan Andrija (Croatian), other information unknown, investigation underway;
60. Marinic Pero Croatian), other information unknown, investigation is underway;
61. Kovacevic Jakov (Croatian), son of father Anto, other information unknown, investigation is underway;
62. Salicin Sulejman (Muslim), son of father Kasim and mother Begana, born on 13 March 1949 in Sijekovac;
63. Unknown person, know only under nickname'Mokica'from Luscani, identification and investigation is underway;
64. Certain lvo from Novo Selo, known under nickname 'Zec', identification and investigation is underway;
65. Certain Kljajic brothers from Kricinovo, identification is underway;
66. Eres Damir (Croatian), son of father Ziatko, born on IO December 1972 in Slavonski Brod (Croatia);
67. Eres Dragan (Croatian), son of father Zlatko, born on 16 November 1966 in Orijolac, Municipality of Slavonski Brod.
There is a reasonable doubt that the suspects from under ordinal numbers 36. to 67. have committed Criminal acts against the civilian population by participating alongside the other suspects within Croatian-Muslim paramilitary formations in the expulsion and ethnic cleansing of the Serb population, looting and burning of their homes and the imprisonment of the civilian population and taking them for forced labor and forced service in their armed forces, in particular by carrying out alongside the other suspects the executions of the Serb civilian population following the occupation of the Serb settlements of Gornja and Donja Mocila from 26 March to 4 May 1992 so that the following persons lost their lives in the period from the occupation until the liberation of Bosanski Brod on 7 October 1992:
1. Ceric Mirko, son of father Nikola and mother Marica, born on 20 August 1926 in D.Mocila, Municipality of Brod;
2. Ceric Dusa, son of father Mirko and mother Mara, born on 27 August 1954 in D. Mocila, Municipality of Brod;
3. Ceric Jelena, daughter of father Luka and mother Andja, born on 1 November 1922 in Grk, Municipality in Brod;
4. Ceric Bosiljka, daughter of father Sava, born on 12 April 1935 in D.Mocila, Municipality of Brod;
5. Ceric Bogoijub, son of father Djordje and mother Milica, born on 2 January 1914 in D.Mocila;
6. Bacic Milka, daughter of Petar, born on 2 January 1958 in Kostres, Municipality of Derventa;
7. Bacic Risto, identification is underway;
8. Bacic Nedeljko, son of father Petar, born on 2 February 1955 in Sijekovac;
9. Ceric Tomislav, son of father Radivoje from D.Mocilo, other information unknown; 10.Kusljic Risto, son of father Nedeljko and mother Nevenka born on 16 August 1936 in D. Mocila;
11.Kusljic Luka, son of father Dusan and mother Darinka, born on 28 October 1937 in D.Mocila;
12. Rudez Ivan, son of father Mate born on 13 December 1913 in Poljica, Municipality of Vrgorac (Croatia);
13. Sedlic Novak, from Sijekovac, identification is underway;
14. Kusljic Dimitrije, son of father Ceda, identification is underway;
15. Tomic Mara, daughter of father Pejo, born on 23 December 1930 in Sijekovac;
16. Tomic Petar, identification and investigation is underway;
17. Alic Mustafa, son of father Numan born on 26 April 1938 in Sijekovac;
18. Kovacevic Mustafa, son of father Hasan, born on 5 June 1938 in Sijekovac;
19. Milicic Slobodanka, daughter of father Nedjo and mother Mara, other information unknown.
The suspects are under reasonable suspicion to have committed the criminal act of war crime and the first ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina that took plaec on 26 March in Sijekovac small village near city of Bosanski Brod (North Bosnia). They are charged of having killed the civilians, looted the valuables from their homes, setting them on fire or dynamiting them.
In discharging the duties of chairmen of the self-styled ‘Crisis Committee’ of Bosanski Brod, Mr. Ivan Brzic and Mr. Armin Pohara helped arm and set up Muslim and Croatian paramilitary units in the territory of the municipality of Bosanski Brod. On 26 March 1992 the two of them planned and commanded a raid against the civilian population of Serb nationality in the village of Sijekovac, the municipality of Bosanski Brod, and for that purpose they invited the suspects Mr. Ante Prkacin and Mr. Rade Obradovic who come over, heading a large group of the HOS members and the regular Army of the Republic of Croatia from Slavonski Brod, city just over the river Sava from Bosanski Brod. The same day the said formation arrived in Sijekovac at about 4 p.m. and in coordination with the paramilitary Ustasha-Muslim unit of the so-called ‘Intervention Squad in Bosanski Brod’ which included also the other suspects, set siege to the village and opened fire at the houses of the villagers of Serb nationality from all weapons, They presented the Serbs hidden in the basements of the houses of the families of Zecevic and Bacic, who unlike all others had not managed to leave the village, an ultimatum at about 4:30 p.m. requsting them to hand over the arms they allegedly possessed and to leave the basements. Following the orders, women Stojanka Opacic, Marica Radanovic, Nedeljka Vasic, Miladinka Milosevic, Milka Zecevic, Ljubica Zecevic and Jelica Zecevic, children Marinka Opacic, Dragan Milosevic, Sasa Milosevic, Zeljko Milosevic, Goran Zecevic and men Vid Radanovic, Jovo Zecevic, Milan Zecevic, Vaso Zecevic, Petar Zecevic, Luka Milosevic and Sreto Milosevic left the basement of the house of the Zecevic family. The suspects ordered them to lie down, kicking them and beating them with riffle butts, threatening to rape the women and to kill all men and children cursing their Chetnik mothers. On that occasion, following the physical maltreatment, the suspects fired a number of riffle bursts and individual shots into, and killed Milan Zecevic, Vaso Zecevic, Petar Zecevic, Mirko Radanovic, Luka Milosevic and children Dragan Milosevic and Zeljko Milosevic.
The suspect Mr. Zemir Kovacevic kicked Jovo Zecevic in his backside as he was leaving his courtyard at Kovacevic’s orders so that Jovo Zecevic fell on the asphalt on the street whereupon suspect Kovacevic pulled out a pistol and killed Jovo Zecevic from pint blank range.
It is pointed out that the victims offered neither verbal nor physical resistance so that the killings were committed while they were lying on the ground face down.
Following this massacre, the suspect killed Sreto Trifunovic in his room, and looted Serb houses in Sijekovac, setting fire to almost all of them (some 50 houses). The few survivors, men, women and children alike, were led to the building of the elementary school in Sijekovac, where they were imprisoned and detained illegally in inadequate rooms, and maltreated and threatened with slaughter. A few days later Jovo Zivkovic's son Branislav, witness to part of this massacre, and an undertaker from Derventa found the bodies of Branislav's three brothers Vaso, Petar and Milan Zecevic on a meadow in Bosanski Brod between the Hospital Center and Electrical Power Station and brought them to Prnjavor where the Investigating Judge Sava Misic and the Forensic Analyst Dr. Mirko Prodanovic carried an investigation and examined the corpses on 30 March 1992. It has been established that the corpse of Sreto Trifunovic was buried in the 41- courtyard of the house of Jefto Pjanic at Sijekovac, while the burial place of others is unknown. Complete documentation is available for each individual suspect and relevant witness depositions are registered under numbers 298-001, 298-002, 298-003, 298- 01 I and 28/189. During these raids all Serb sacral establishments were looted and demolished and the relevant documentation is kept by the War Crimes Expert Commission of the Republic of Srpska. Also available are the copies of the orders issued by the Croatian Ministry of Defence to its military to invade Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is important to note that all document’s which contain more than 6000 pages about Croatian aggression on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina supported with local Muslim is given to International ad hoc Tribunal for former Yugoslavia.
Until today there is no respond from ICTY, and nobody are accused for the first crimes committed in Bosnia. Showing the fact who started the War in Bosnia many things woulld be different and today we can conclude why USA, Germany and other Western countries covered the truth.
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