The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), on August 16, 2024, submitted a criminal complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for War Crimes (PPOWC) of the Republic of Serbia against two individuals, members of Serbian volunteer units, for the rape of two Bosniak women in the Zubovići settlement near Foča, as well as the arrest and detention of civilians in detention facilities in the Foča area in April 1992.
On April 14, 1992, individuals identified as DEDA and PERO, along with about twenty other members of the Serbian forces operating within the Foča Brigade of the Army of Republika Srpska, led by Gojko Janković, carried out an armed attack on the village of Zubovići. Armed soldiers, firing automatic weapons, reached the Mezbur family home, where more than 30 civilians, mostly women and children and a few men, were hiding. The Serbian forces separated the men from the women and children by force, loaded them onto a truck, and took them to the Livade camp (a former weapon depot of the Yugoslav People’s Army), and later to the KP Dom detention facility in Foča.
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On the occasion of marking the 29th anniversary of the military-police operation “Storm”, during and after which Croatian forces committed widespread and systematic crimes against the Serbian civilian population and their property, the Humanitarian Law Center reiterates its longstanding demand that the authorities and institutions in Serbia grant the victims the status of civilian war victims, and that they cease their political abuse of the memory of those who perished.
None of the victims of Operation “Storm” living in Serbia can yet exercise their rights, as the current legal framework not only fails to meet the needs of the victims, but also discriminates against those whose injuries occurred outside the territory of Serbia. This leaves civilian invalids and the families of the victims of Operation “Storm” without financial, health, or psychosocial support from any of the relevant institutions.
