Sarajevo tense on massacre anniversary
Two gatherings were held in Sarajevo, Bosnia, to mark 18 years since the crime in Dobrovoljačka Street, with heightened tensions in the town.
Monday, 03.05.2010.
10:57
Two gatherings were held in Sarajevo, Bosnia, to mark 18 years since the crime in Dobrovoljacka Street, with heightened tensions in the town. On May 3, 1992, a retreating Yugoslav Army (JNA) convoy was attacked by Muslim forces in this Sarajevo street, resulting in death and injury of scores of soldiers. Sarajevo tense on massacre anniversary Memorial ceremonies were planned in East Sarajevo today, while several hundred Serbs from the Republic of Srpska (RS) for the first time also honored the victims at the scene of the crime. They carried white roses and candles through Dobrovoljacka Street, and honoring the victims of the crime for which no one has been held responsible to date. However, cantonal police stopped their buses this morning. Unofficially, police did so waiting for participants of another gathering to disperse. They were the Green Beret Association, who announced they would go to the same street today, “to honor the defenders of Sarajevo”. The association called on citizens to “gather peacefully” in the street, which has been renamed to Hamdije Kresevljakovica St. No incidents were reported from the two gatherings that were held in close proximity. The so-called Green Berets were a Muslim paramilitary formation during the 1992-95 war, which was later integrated into the Bosnian Army. The scene of the May 1992 massacre (Tanjug, file)
Sarajevo tense on massacre anniversary
Memorial ceremonies were planned in East Sarajevo today, while several hundred Serbs from the Republic of Srpska (RS) for the first time also honored the victims at the scene of the crime.They carried white roses and candles through Dobrovoljačka Street, and honoring the victims of the crime for which no one has been held responsible to date.
However, cantonal police stopped their buses this morning. Unofficially, police did so waiting for participants of another gathering to disperse.
They were the Green Beret Association, who announced they would go to the same street today, “to honor the defenders of Sarajevo”.
The association called on citizens to “gather peacefully” in the street, which has been renamed to Hamdije Kreševljakovića St.
No incidents were reported from the two gatherings that were held in close proximity.
The so-called Green Berets were a Muslim paramilitary formation during the 1992-95 war, which was later integrated into the Bosnian Army.
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