The 30th anniversary of the terrible crime against Bosniak civilians was marked yesterday in the yard of the Sarajli family's house in Bijeljina settlement of Bukre On the night of September 24 to 25, 1992, the Sarajli Malagi and Sejmenovi families were executed.
22 members of the mentioned families were killed, including seven children. Today, her relatives and friends laid wreaths and flowers on the footprint, the mark in the concrete, that little girl Alma Sarajli left when the family house was built.
Lawyer Du ko Tomi addressed those present at the commemoration, who called the killing of the Sarajli Sejmenovi and Malagi families a small genocide. He said he is a lawyer of one of the accused who has expressed remorse and that he can't wait to meet the witnesses who, after 29 years of waiting, have been arrested by the SIPA officers in the territory of the BiH entity RS. In January 2022 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed the indictments against ivan Miljanovi assistant commander of the Public Security Station in Bijeljina, Stevo Bokari member of the State Security Service in Bijeljina, Goran Sari former commander of the Special Brigade of the Republika Srpska Police, and Ljubo Markovi Slavenko Ko evi and Zvonko Pr ulj, members of a special squad of
The prosecution said that during the night of September 24 - 25, 1992, the indictees unlawfully captured members of the Sarajli Sejmenovi and Malagi families from their houses in the Bukre neighbourhood of Bijeljina.
More than half of the Bosniaks captured were women, children and elderly people.
After being captured and taken to the village of Balatun, the civilians were executed with firearms, their bodies thrown into the Drina River, the prosecution said when the indictment was initially raised.
After the war, most of the victims' bodies were found in several locations in the Sremska Mitrovica area of Serbia. The bodies of four victims have yet to be found.