WORLD NEWS FOR MONTENEGRO DIASPORA
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AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
Today marks 33 years since the murder of three civilians, Hasan, Ferida and their daughter Sena Klapuh, who fled to Montenegro from war-torn Foča in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. The members of the Klapuh family were brutally murdered by members of the Army of Republika Srpska (RS) on July 6, 1992, near Plužine, on the Obrada Cicmila bridge over the Piva River. Today, Andrijana Vujošević - advisor to the State Prosecutor's Office, Amina Murić from the Youth Initiative for Human Rights and Ivan Radulović from the Civic Alliance laid a wreath at the site of the Klapuh family's death.
They called on institutions to be more agile in this and other war crimes cases.
For this murder, qualified as a war crime against the civilian population, in Montenegro in 1996, Janko Janjić, Radomir Kovač, Zoran Simović and Zoran Vuković were sentenced to 20 years in prison each, while their accomplice Vidoje Golubović was sentenced to eight months for failing to report the crime and the perpetrators.
They called on the competent institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina to take measures to bring Zoran Vuković and Radomir Kovač to justice.
The court determined that when the defendants crossed the border and arrived near Plužine, near the Mratinje dam on the Piva River, they took the victims out of the vehicle, shot them and pushed them off a bridge about 100 meters high.
