Article about the Trusina massacre commemoration in English

Source: http://main.omanobserver.om/node/91285

Bosnians commemorate 1993 massacre
Tue, 17 April 2012

SARAJEVO — Bosnian Croat and Muslim political and military officials yesterday attended a joint commemoration for Croats killed during the 1990s war here, a rare event in the Balkan country.

"We are finally together in one place. ... We have to bow before all the victims and condemn all the perpetrators of war crimes," the president of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat half Zivko Budimir said at the ceremony, quoted by the FENA news agency.

The commemoration was held in the village of Trusina, in southern Bosnia, where members of the Bosnian army killed 18 civilians and four military prisoners, all ethnic Croats.
Budimir, an ethnic Croat, as well as his two deputies, Mirsad Kebo, a Muslim, and Svetozar Pudaric, a Serb, placed wreaths in front of the monument.

Representatives of former Croat and Muslim generals also laid wreaths.

"Generals of both (Bosnian Croat war-time forces) HVO and the Bosnian army are here together for the first time," Kebo said.

"The victims cannot be divided, they are all equal before God and the people," he said, adding that yesterday's ceremony was a "path towards boosting confidence" between the two communities.

Six former Muslim officers and soldiers are currently on trial before local courts for their alleged role in the Trusina massacre.

Although allied against Bosnian Serbs during most of the 1992-95 Bosnian war, Croats and Muslims fought each other for 11 months between 1993 and 1994 in southern and central Bosnia.

The four-year conflict claimed some 100,000 lives, while, half of the former Yugoslav republic's pre-war population, fled their homes.

It left the country split into two highly autonomous entities — the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Serbs' Republika Srpska. — AFP

I have just read that the Prlic et al judgement will now be in May, not March as previously thought.