Institute for Research on Suffering of the Serbs in XX c.

 

1.    The lists of the buried victims of July 1995 contain a large number of persons registered in the voting lists in the commune of Srebrenica for the following elections in 1996. We have their names, but at present we shall give just u numerical review. Out of the number of persons mentioned for the first burial of the alleged victims of July 1995, 271 persons can be found in the voting lists for 1996, for the second burial 85, the third 31, the fourth 140, the fifth 252 and for the sixth burial 135. That amounts to 914 persons or 37% out of the total number of buried persons. It is logical to suppose that they are the persons who died of natural causes in the period between July 1995 and July 2006 when it was the last burial, and not the victims of Srebrenica killed after the Serbs came back to the town. If they had not been alive, the organizer of the elections, OSCE, had more than a year to take them out of Srebrenica voting lists. Hat was not done. There are indications that the same happened in the communes of Bratunac, then in Vlasenica and Zvornik.

 

2.    Another disputable issue is the case of the persons for whom there are court decisions that thez had died of natural causes. Unfortunately, we are not in the position to have even a slight look into the death register in Srebrenica, Bratunac, as well as in other neighboring communes where the soldiers were recruited for 8 operating group of BH Army. In that case, this list would be several times longer. However, and apart from that, it is not disputable that it was the way to enlarge the number of the alleged Moslem victims in Srebrenica, „killed“ in the „massacre“ when the Serbs came back in July 1995, and buried at the Memorial Center – mezarje in Potočari. Out of one hundred names, we shall mention just a few of them: Ftahija (Nazif) Hasanović, 1955. – died on 15.12.1996, Srebrenica (1) .  Šukrija (Amil) Smajlović, 1946 – died 2.05.1992, Zalužje (2 ).  Maho (Suljo) Rizvanović, 1953 – died 3.01.1993, Glogova (3) .  Mefail (Meho) Demirović, 1970.g. – died 10.05.1992, Krasanovići (4) .  Redžić (Ahmet) Asim, 1949 – died 22.04.1992, Bratunac(5) .

3.    The mortal remains both of the soldiers and civilians from other sites were transported to the Memorial Center in order to make a false picture of a large number of innocent civilian Moslem victims and then ritually with religious services buried again. Such a deceptive picture covered a couple of hundred persons. We shall note about ten concrete names. After the first burial on 31 March 2003, from the local Memorial center in Kazani, the body of Hamed (Hamid) Halilović (1940-1982) was taken out and buried again. It is evident that the person had died ten years before the war. After the seciond burial on 11 July 2004, the body of an old man who died before the war was taken out from the same Memorial Center together with a soldier of BH Army. They are: Osman (Ibro) Halilović (1912-1989) and Nurija (Smajo) Memišević (1966-1993). After the fifth burial on 11. 07. 2005. again were buried: Salih (Šaban) Alić (1969-1992), Mujo (Hašim) Hadžić (1954-1993), Ferid (Ramo) Mustafić (1975-1993), Hajrudin (Ismet) Cvrk (1974-1992).(6)