Human rights minister tours Sandžak
Minister Milan Marković is today visiting Serbia's southwestern region of Sandžak.
Friday, 25.03.2011.
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Minister Milan Markovic is today visiting Serbia's southwestern region of Sandzak. Markovic, who in the reshuffled government added human and minority rights to his local administration portfolio, has embarked on his first trip to two towns in the Raska District. Human rights minister tours Sandzak Markovic was first in Prijepolje to honor the victims of the Strpci abduction, as well as to visit a memorial dedicated to fallen police and soldiers, and will later head for Novi Pazar, where he will meet with leaders of the Bosniak (Muslim) community. “A crime happened in Strpci in which innocent people, who went about their own business, died and someone saw fit to kidnap them and take their lives,” he stated. According to him, every crime, including this one, leaves people speechless and it is therefore obligation of the citizens of Prijepolje and everybody who lives in Serbia not to let it be forgotten. “We won’t allow any crime to be forgotten and we should always keep in mind that there is a criminal behind a crime who always has a first and a last name,” Markovic said, pointing out that a memory of the innocent victims needed to be kept alive. He advocated creation of a society where nobody would be able to question inviolability of life, freedom and human rights regardless of their religion, ethnicity, political option or any other distinction. The human rights minister said that Serbia must not lose its future and that the future was a joint state for all people, where everybody would have equal rights and obligations. He stressed that competent state bodies would do everything to find the remains of the kidnapped victims. About 20 members of the Republic of Srpska (RS) Army led by Milan Lukic from Visegrad carried out the kidnapping. They stopped an express Belgrade-Bar train at Strpci train station and kidnapped 18 Bosniaks and a Croat. The passengers were later tortured and killed and their bodies were thrown in the Drina River. Eight victims were Montenegrin citizens, 11 were from Serbia and one victim was from Bosnia-Herzegovina. Milan Markovic (Tanjug, file)
Human rights minister tours Sandžak
Marković was first in Prijepolje to honor the victims of the Štrpci abduction, as well as to visit a memorial dedicated to fallen police and soldiers, and will later head for Novi Pazar, where he will meet with leaders of the Bosniak (Muslim) community.“A crime happened in Štrpci in which innocent people, who went about their own business, died and someone saw fit to kidnap them and take their lives,” he stated.
According to him, every crime, including this one, leaves people speechless and it is therefore obligation of the citizens of Prijepolje and everybody who lives in Serbia not to let it be forgotten.
“We won’t allow any crime to be forgotten and we should always keep in mind that there is a criminal behind a crime who always has a first and a last name,” Marković said, pointing out that a memory of the innocent victims needed to be kept alive.
He advocated creation of a society where nobody would be able to question inviolability of life, freedom and human rights regardless of their religion, ethnicity, political option or any other distinction.
The human rights minister said that Serbia must not lose its future and that the future was a joint state for all people, where everybody would have equal rights and obligations.
He stressed that competent state bodies would do everything to find the remains of the kidnapped victims.
About 20 members of the Republic of Srpska (RS) Army led by Milan Lukić from Višegrad carried out the kidnapping. They stopped an express Belgrade-Bar train at Štrpci train station and kidnapped 18 Bosniaks and a Croat. The passengers were later tortured and killed and their bodies were thrown in the Drina River.
Eight victims were Montenegrin citizens, 11 were from Serbia and one victim was from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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