The Memorial Center of Republika Srpska has started recording testimonies in Nevesinje

In Nevesinje, as part of the activities of the Memorial Center of the Republic of Srpska, the eighth regional study center has been established for recording audio-video testimonies of family members of killed and missing civilians and soldiers from the Defensive-Patriotic War. The first testimony was given by Aljonka Dželatović, President of the Organization of Families of Captured and Killed Fighters and Missing Civilians of Nevesinje, who spoke about the life and tragic fate of her brother Milenko Milović, who went missing in 1992 in Mostar.

In the Herzegovina region, more than 1,570 victims of Serbian nationality were killed, of whom at least 1,170 were soldiers and over 400 were civilians. Herzegovina, especially after the fall of the Neretva Valley and the city of Mostar in June 1992, was crisscrossed with local sites of suffering and camps for Serbs, who were taken from these areas to camps in Croatia as well.

The Nevesinje–Mostar battlefield was one of the two key defensive axes of Eastern Herzegovina during the Defensive-Patriotic War, and Nevesinje became a refuge and new home for many Serbs. Nevesinje, a place with a long tradition of Serbian warrior and insurgent history, as the center of the 8th Motorized Brigade of the Herzegovinian Corps of the VRS, became the center of defense of Herzegovina and the site of many battles, the most famous of which were the two St. Demetrius Day offensives in 1992 and 1994.

The Nevesinje battlefield was also closely linked to the wartime events and defense in the Serbian Municipality of Konjic. The Nevesinje area is also characterized by crimes against the Serbian civilian population, such as those in Zaborani on "Vidovdan" 1992 and in Žuberi and Rabina on "Mitrovdan" 1994, committed by Muslim forces.

The Municipal Veterans’ Organization of Nevesinje and the families of fallen fighters preserve the memory of 476 killed fighters from Nevesinje, Mostar, and the Neretva Valley, as well as from other parts of Eastern Herzegovina, who gave their lives for the creation and defense of the Republic of Srpska.

The Memorial Center of the Republic of Srpska is intensively working on creating the largest database of audio-video testimonies about the suffering of the Serbian people. The Director of the Memorial Center, Denis Bojić, called on all family members of the killed and missing, as well as all those whose fate testifies to the suffering of the Serbian people, to share their testimony and thereby permanently preserve the memory of their loved ones.

Anyone who wishes to leave a testimony can contact us via email: komunikacije@mcrs.vladars.rs or by phone: 051/222-999.

Note: Any reproduction, copying, or use of the material for other purposes is not permitted without the prior consent of the Memorial Center of the Republic of Srpska.

Link to the audio-video testimony of Aljonka Dželatović

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