Muslim victims commemorated

Today marks the 18th anniversary since 18 Serbian citizens were kidnapped from a train at Štrpce train station.

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Sunday, 27.02.2011.

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Today marks the 18th anniversary since 18 Serbian citizens were kidnapped from a train at Strpce train station. A commemoration for the victims will be held in Prijepolje today and officials and victims' families will lay wreaths at the monument. Muslim victims commemorated A debate honoring 18 ethnic Bosniaks and a Croat who were kidnapped from a Belgrade-Bar train on February 27, 1993 and later killed was held in Prijepolje. Aside from putting war criminals on trial, it is also necessary to implement other mechanisms of transitional justice and therefore contribute to construction of a stable future in the Balkans, it was said at the debate organized by the Civil Society Coordination in Sandzak, the Civic Initiatives Youth Program and Policy Center from Belgrade. The Civic Initiative's Miljenko Dereta says that a lack of the state's more active role in locating and punishing criminals is not a coincidence. “The most precious thing that happened here today is that young people from all over Serbia, as old as the crime, meaning 18 years, have heard about it for the first time here and felt a need to talk about it in the most intimate way and to say that it is the state's sin that the victims have not been recognized as victims of a crime that the state is actually responsible for,“ he stressed. Deputy Ombudsman Milos Jankovic pointed out that he would support a civil society's initiative to change some regulations that prevented the victims' families from exercising their rights. Prijepolje Municipal President Dragoljub Zindovic will today meet with the victims' families. The Islamic Community in Serbia will also organize a special program in memory of the kidnapped and killed passengers.

Muslim victims commemorated

A debate honoring 18 ethnic Bosniaks and a Croat who were kidnapped from a Belgrade-Bar train on February 27, 1993 and later killed was held in Prijepolje.

Aside from putting war criminals on trial, it is also necessary to implement other mechanisms of transitional justice and therefore contribute to construction of a stable future in the Balkans, it was said at the debate organized by the Civil Society Coordination in Sandžak, the Civic Initiatives Youth Program and Policy Center from Belgrade.

The Civic Initiative's Miljenko Dereta says that a lack of the state's more active role in locating and punishing criminals is not a coincidence.

“The most precious thing that happened here today is that young people from all over Serbia, as old as the crime, meaning 18 years, have heard about it for the first time here and felt a need to talk about it in the most intimate way and to say that it is the state's sin that the victims have not been recognized as victims of a crime that the state is actually responsible for,“ he stressed.

Deputy Ombudsman Miloš Janković pointed out that he would support a civil society's initiative to change some regulations that prevented the victims' families from exercising their rights.

Prijepolje Municipal President Dragoljub Zindović will today meet with the victims' families.

The Islamic Community in Serbia will also organize a special program in memory of the kidnapped and killed passengers.

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