{"id":214613,"date":"2018-10-23T14:36:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/?p=214613"},"modified":"2021-09-10T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T07:42:37","slug":"war-veterans-at-the-commemoration-in-stupni-do-we-are-building-relationships-based-on-trust-and-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/war-veterans-at-the-commemoration-in-stupni-do-we-are-building-relationships-based-on-trust-and-solidarity\/","title":{"rendered":"War Veterans at the Commemoration in Stupni Do: We are building relationships based on trust and solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n

At the invitation of the Organising Committee to mark 25 years since the war crime against Bosniaks in Stupni Do near Vare\u0161, war veterans from the region, former members of the Army of RBiH, HVO, VRS, HV, VJ and JNA, attended today\u2019s commemoration dedicated to those killed in Stupni Do near Vare\u0161. On 23 October 1993 (according to ICTY information in the case against Ivica Raji\u0107), 32 civilians, including five children, were killed in Stupni Do, about five kilometres from Vare\u0161. Multiple perpetrators have been convicted of this war crime. \u201cIt is my honour and pleasure to see members of what were once warring sides standing together here in Stupni Do to pay their respects to the victims. I am speechless, for me personally, this is a big thing and I feel I am speaking on behalf of all the people of Stupni Do. They can see that Bosniak victims from this village have not been forgotten and this group of veterans sends a message of never again and shows us the path we need to take,\u201d said Emir Liki\u0107 on behalf of the organising committee.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Since 2008, the peace organisation Centre for Nonviolent Action<\/strong>, with offices in Sarajevo and Belgrade, has been organising visits by groups of war veterans from Croatia, Serbia and BiH to sites of atrocities against civilians and soldiers committed in the recent war and to official commemorations honouring victims, organised by local and state authorities and victims\u2019 associations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cBy coming to the commemoration, you come to terms with what happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina and you realise that individuals from all sides committed horrific crimes. Then you ask yourself whether we still have the humanity, the kindness to move forward. You wonder if you\u2019ll have the strength to visit a place where members of your people committed a crime. Can each of us do that? We, war veterans, who came here to Stupni Do and pay our respects to the victims, we send a message to young people that despite everything that happened, we can live together,\u201d said Mirko Ze\u010devi\u0107-Tadi\u0107, former member of HVO.<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Under the organisation of the Centre for Nonviolent Action, veterans from the region have attended commemorations in BiH in Gornji Vakuf, at Site 715 near Zavidovi\u0107i, in Stog near Vozu\u0107a, in Novi Grad\/Bosanski Novi, Sanski Most (Hrastova glavica), Sijekovac near Brod, Lani\u0161ta near Br\u010dko, Trusina near Konjic, and in Serbia in Grdeli\u010dka klisura near Leskovac, Varvarin near Kru\u0161evac, Aleksinac, as well as in Croatia in Pakrac, Varivode and Go\u0161i\u0107 near Knin.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cWe came here on the day when the people of Stupni Do remember the greatest tragedy that befell this place. As war veterans and peace activists, we came to pay our respects to the victims of this horrific war crime. With compassion for the families of victims and their neighbours and friends, we want to send a message of peace and hope that it is possible to build new relations between people based on mutual trust and a common desire for good and solidarity among people,\u201d said Amer Deli\u0107 from the Centre for Nonviolent Action Sarajevo\/Belgrade.<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

At the working meeting after the commemoration, the war veterans from the region were joined by the Mayor of Vare\u0161 Zdravko Maro\u0161evi\u0107 and the head imam of the Vare\u0161 Islamic Community Mejlis Ramiz ef. Zuba\u010da.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Media reports on the visit:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Radio Sarajevo <\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Bljesak.info<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Dnevnik.ba<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Radio televizija Tuzlanskog kantona<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Fena<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Oslobo\u0111enje<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Radio Sarajevo <\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Index.hr<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Faktor.ba<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Magazin Plus<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Etleboro<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We, war veterans, who came here to Stupni Do and pay our respects to the victims, we send a message to young people that despite everything that happened, we can live together,\u201d said Mirko Ze\u010devi\u0107-Tadi\u0107, former member of HVO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,72],"tags":[1838,2441,182,2149,1904,238],"class_list":["post-214613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-excomb","tag-commemoration-en","tag-stupni-do-en","tag-veterans","tag-war-veteran-cooperation","tag-war-veterans-in-peacebuilding","tag-war-veterans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233428,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214613\/revisions\/233428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}