Students of the Theological School put on a show titled “I seek justice for innocent victims,” and flowers were laid and candles lit for the 56 victims.
The president of the organisational committee for the commemoration, Slavko Djordjevic, said that the aim of the event is to point out the injustice arising from the failure to punish the perpetrators and those who ordered the commission of this crime.
The youngest victim in Josanica was 2.5 years old and the oldest was 90. He said that everyone asks why the BiH judiciary remains blind despite all the evidence.
“Something like this does not exist anywhere else. We ask why those who are accountable are not being prosecuted. One need not investigate or prove too much; all it takes is to look at the photographs to see what was done to Josanica residents and everything will be clear to the Prosecution and Court,” said Djordjevic, whose closest family members were killed and who, as chief medical technician at the Foca General Hospital, saw the bodies of the mutilated victims.
Dusanka Lalovic is one of the rare Josanica residents who survived the massacre of St. Nicholas Day, 1992.
“No judicial institution has ever reacted to this crime, in which 56 people who were celebrating their Patron St.’s Day, including three children, were massacred. There are witnesses who know the criminals. For 21 years we have lived with this unpunished crime, asking why the criminals have not been brought to justice,” said Lalovic, who was hiding in bushes and so survived the massacre.
A march from Foca to Josanica will be organised tomorrow, when a convoy of citizens will set off for Gornja Josanica after which a commemorative service will be said for these innocent Serbian victims.
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Testimonies from some of the few survivors:
Dusanka Lalovic, hidden in a grove overlooking the village managed to survive the attack, torture, rape and murder of 32 men, 21 women and 3 children. She said, no one was spared and points out that no one was expecting that anything
woulld happen that day because most of the locals were celebrating St Nicholas.
"They were expecting guests, but not those guests. At dawn shots were heard from all directions, shouting across the village "Kill" "slaughter" It was horrible. Around noon I heard shouts of Olga Visnjic and her daughters "-Save us!"
everywhere horrible sight of massacred bodies" says Lalovic
Momir Kulic managed to brake through the thug lines and into safety. But from what he saw and experienced, he managed to get grey hair in only 7 days.
"I saw them rush and chase our people when they were trying to escape.Children were screaming, It was horrible. One family was completely wiped out.It was hell, bodies of butchered neighbours and relatives were all over the place. I know who did it and I am ready to testify of that to the investigating authorities" Said Kulic
Desanka Grujicic who survived the massacre on St Nicholas day 1992 in Josanica telling us she survived because together with a cousin she stayed hidden in the ferns. Even when the soldiers were passing right next to them they managed to stay un noticed. A little further away was an old woman trying to hide.
“I heard how they were talking to eachother “hey, come back. Here`s an oldie here” I heard shots, we found her later dead. We stayed there all night and at dawn, we slowly went to the village. It was terrible to see everything, God forbid,” recalled Grujicic.
She then passed out and woke up in the hospital in Foca
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The Victims: December 19, 1992 - Josanica(Foca) 1.Lazar Blagojevic (1939) 2.Radomir Jagodic (1939) 3.Risto Blagojevic (1938) 4.Miroslav Blagojevic (1968) 5.Dragomir Blagojevic (1954) 6.Rade Pljevaljcic (1904) 7.Stana Pljevaljcic (1906) 8.Drago Pljevaljcic (1946) 9.Nedjo Ivanovic (1910) 10.Stana Micevic (1928) 11.Novak Micevic (1954) 12.Vide Kulic (1936) 13.Persa Kulic (1938) 14.Pero Kulic (1939) 15.Vinka Kulic (1939) 16.Danilo Kulic (1919) 17.Stojka Kulic (1926) 18.Vukasin Visnjic (1928) 19.Zorka Visnjic (1928) 20.Milan Visnjic (1958) 21.Dragoljub Visnjic (1953) 22.Drazen Visnjic (1986) 23.Mile Skipina (1953) 24.Goja Visnjic (1948) 25.Ranka Visnjic (1968) (I am sorry but I don’t have information of the four victims missing in this list) | 26.Zoranka Visnjic (1970) 27.Vlatko Visnjic (1972) 28.Sreto Grujicic (1937) 29.Vukosava Grujicic (1932) 30.Nedjo Grujicic (1930) 31.Stana Grujicic (1930) 32.Marko Grujicic (1960) 33.Nebojsa Grujicic (1972) 34.Miladin Visnjic (1940) 35.Jela Visnjic (1942) 36.Milanka Stevanovic (1940) 37.Rade Visnjic (1936) 38.Tomo Visnjic (1947) 39.Milja Jegdic (1923) 40.Mileva Jegdic (1950) 41.Milosav Davidovic (1930) 42.Novica Davidovic (1956) 43.Branko Davidovic (1933) 44.Danica Davidovic (1931) 45.Risto Kulic (1930) 46.Stana Kulic (1932) 47.Slavojka Kulic (1942) 48.Danilo Stojanovic (1907) 49.Nikola Stojanovic (1913) 50.Gojka Stojanovic (1950) 51.Milosav Ivanovic (1934) 52.Vlatko Jegdic (1938) 53. 54. 55. 56. |
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http://www.srna.rs/novosti/109102/remembrance-of-josanica-victims.htm
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