Stasa Kosarac, the chair of the SNSD caucus in the BiH House of Representatives, told reporters that the relevant institutions of Republika Srpska would monitor Naser Oric’s war crimes case very closely.
“Every step and every hearing in this process will be closely monitored as no one in Republika Srpska, in particular the families of war victims, cannot be satisfied with the scope of the indictment, which covers three victims from three different villages instead of more than 3,500 Serb victims and more than 100 burned Serb’s villages in the Podrinje municipalities,” Kosarac told SRNA.
In a separate interview, Mladen Grujicic, who heads an association for victims’ families, echoed the sentiment that the charges Oric faces represent only a small fraction of the crimes of which the wartime Bosniak commander is suspected.
He says Oric will answer “for one tree in the completely cut down forest” because he will be prosecuted for the murders of three Serb prisoners, while being responsible for several dozen imprisonments with some 60 Serbs from the Srebrenica and Bratunac area still registered as missing.
“Dozens of detained Serbs and hundreds of Serb civilians – elderly men, women and children – were killed under his command and upon his orders and it is appalling that the indictment does not cover all of it,” said Grujicic.
SNSD MP Kosarac also commented to press that BiH authorities have seemingly failed thus far to investigate or prosecute cases of BiH citizens leaving to fight with extremist groups in Iraq and Syria, despite a recently-passed amendment to the BiH Criminal Code that makes it a crime for citizens to join such foreign groups.
