ASSOCIATION ‘WOMEN – VICTIMS OF WAR’ – CRIME OF BURNING BOSNIAN CIVILIANS ALIVE IN BIKAVAC IS PROOF OF COMMITTED GENOCIDE AGAINST BOSNIAKS IN VIŠEGRAD AND REPUBLIC OF BIH

SARAJEVO, JUNE 27 (ONASA) – On this day, exactly 31 years ago, on June 27, 1992, Serbian criminals and monsters burned Bosniak civilians (women, children and the elderly) alive in the house of Meha Aljić on Bikavac in Višegrad.
The crime of burning Bosniak civilians alive in Bikavac, as well as a number of other individual and mass crimes against Bosniaks, are evidence of the genocide committed against Bosniaks in Visegrad and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The youngest victim was a one-year-old child, and the oldest was 88 years old.
This crime, together with the “live bonfire” in Pionirska Street on June 14, 1992, represents one of the most terrible, monstrous and colossal war crimes committed by the Serbian armed forces during the aggression and genocide in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the most cruel crimes after World War II on European soil.
On June 27, 1992, Serbian criminals led by Milan Lukić, just like thirteen days earlier in Pionirska Street, forced 72 Bosniak civilians into Meho Aljić’s house in the Bikavac settlement in Višegrad, mostly women and children, and the elderly, where they locked them up. , and then burned them alive. They first shot at the house, then threw bombs, and then set it on fire. Only one person survived, Zehra Turjačanin.
Only the criminal Milan Lukić was sentenced to life imprisonment for this terrible crime in Bikavac by the final judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
Sredoje Lukić, as well as Oliver Krsmanović, were not held accountable for this crime, because the courts could not establish their presence, even though the Hague Prosecutor’s Office, i.e. the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, requested that they be sentenced for participation in the said crime.
What happened on June 27, 1992, in Bikavac, as well as on June 14, 1992 in Pionirska Street, is a classic example of “living bonfires”, the cruelest and most monstrous war crime.
While the victims are trying to preserve this event from oblivion with the message that evil should never happen again to anyone, the authorities of the smaller entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Municipality of Višegrad are still trying to reject justice in every possible way, hide the truth and erase the memory of aggression and genocide in Višegrad and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The remains of the victims have not been found and properly buried even to this day.
In 2023, the Association “Woman – Victim of War” is in cooperation with the author doc. Dr. Ermin Kuk published the scientific monograph “Living Bonfire – Bikavac in Višegrad (June 27, 1992)”, to be a permanent document and reminder of that crime.