Today, the 30th anniversary of the crime against 22 residents of the village of Lješevo was marked with an appropriate program in Lješevo, Ilijaš municipality.
On June 5, 1992, members of the Serbian forces committed the crime on the directive of the wartime president of the Serbian municipality Ilijaš Ratko Adžić, and led by Vassili Vidović Vasket, the decorated Chetnik duke of Podlugo from Sešel, and Marinko Vidović, a former policeman.
Eleven days after the crime, the murdered were buried in a mass grave, the exhumation of which was carried out in 1996, thus opening the first mass grave in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Lješevo is a village that is also mentioned in the indictment of Vojislav Šešelj and Radovan Karadžić, whose trial was conducted before the Hague Tribunal for International War Crimes. Vojsilav Šešelj and Radovan Karadžić were declared responsible for the murders of Bosniaks from the village of Lješeva, as well as the torture and cruel treatment of detainees from Ilijaš in Podlugovi and Semizovac.
Two people survived this brutal crime. Zahida Masnopita, whose two sons, husband, two brothers and several members of her immediate family were killed that day, and she died in 2004. The second survivor is currently a protected witness in the trial being conducted before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the period from 1992 to 1995, Lješevo gave another 17 lives.
As part of the anniversary of the crime in Lješevo, academic actor Izudin Bajrović performed the monodrama "For Lješevo" by professor Muriz Kučinar, and the students of the Persian-Bosnian College Campus from Lješevo remembered the murdered by releasing white balloons.
A panel discussion was also held at which prof. Ph.D. Sabahudin Šarić from the Institute for Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law at the University of Sarajevo, Ilijaš Municipality Mayor Akif Fazlić and Sarajevo Canton Minister for Veteran Affairs Omer Osmanović pointed out the importance of commemorating the anniversaries of the murders.
An exhibition of photographs, documented international media reports on the murders in Lješevo, photos taken on the day of the exhumation, and excerpts from the diary of Izet Avdukić, one of the murdered residents of Lješevo, which he wrote just a few hours before the crime, was opened, the organizers announced.
Source: Raport.ba