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Serbian president receives documents on Serb civilians killed in Bosnian war
BBC Monitoring
January 10, 2006
Text of report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA
Belgrade, 5 January: Serbian President Boris Tadic said today in talks
with a delegation of the [Bosnian] Serb Republic (RS) Association of
[former] Camp Inmates that he will initiate the formation of an
institution which will concern itself with the matter of Serb [war]
victims, the president of the association, Branislav Dukic, has said.
"Tadic said that he will initiate the formation of an institution to
examine the suffering of Serbs and to establish the truth, and not to
produce ready-made truths like the Bosniak [Bosnian Muslim] side is
doing," Dukic said after talks with Tadic in Belgrade.
He pointed out that the delegation of the RS Association of Camp
Inmates handed over detailed documents on Serbs killed in Srebrenica,
Bratunac and Skelani, as well as in other parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina
[B-H].
Dukic said that Serb camp inmates had passed through 536
[prisoner-of-war] camps in the B-H Federation, 222 in Croatia and 21
in Slovenia and that they, as camp inmates who had survived the worst
Golgotha and suffering, want all Serbs who committed crimes against
Bosniaks and Croats to be held accountable, but also for those who
committed crimes against Serbs to find themselves in The Hague.
"The meeting justified our expectations. Tadic did not promise
anything, but sympathized with us as he knew what had occurred in the
former Yugoslavia," Dukic said.
He said that Tadic will give the received documents to his team which
will examine them.
The deputy president of the association of camp inmates, Slavko
Jovicic, said that the documents handed over give a completely
different picture about wartime events as the war in B-H cannot be
just reduced to nine days in Srebrenica.
"We are not advocating a balance in the level of justice, but want the
truth to be known about all crimes, including Srebrenica which as a
paradigm of a [war] crime cannot be understood without looking at the
killing of Serbs," Jovicic said.
He said that the camp inmates expressed an interest in appearing as
witnesses in connection with B-H's lawsuit against the SRJ [Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, formed in 1992 and consisting of Serbia and
Montenegro], as they could not allow as Serbs to be accused of being
aggressors against their own country.
"We are the only ones who talk about the suffering of another people,
but there is not one Bosniak who will say that a single Serb was a
victim," Jovicic said.
Tadic said at the meeting that on 7 January he will visit Bratunac,
Skelani and Srebrenica and all the places where in 1993 1,635 Serb
civilians were killed and 56 villages were torched.
This is the first time since the signing of the Dayton agreement [in
1995] that a delegation of RS camp inmates has been received by a
Serbian president.
Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1548
gmt 5 Jan 06
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