A new memorial plate dedicated to Toma Buzov on the New Belgrade building (BETAPHOTO/RadioSlobodnaEvropa/PrintScreen)
Local authorities and residents have placed a new memorial plate dedicated to Toma Buzov on the New Belgrade building where he once lived, Radio Free Europe reported on April 25. Buzov was one of the 20 train passengers who were kidnapped in Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and executed by members of the Army of Republika Srpska in 1993.
The memorial plaque reads: “Tomo Buzov, JNA [Yugoslav People’s Army] Senior Captain, In memory of the compassion and courage of the man who once lived here.” Buzov, a Croat, was murdered because he attempted to save his Bosniak fellow-passengers. The original plaque, unveiled in 2016, disappeared late last year.
On Feb. 27, 1993, members of the Army of Republika Srpska abducted and killed 19 citizens of what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Aside from Buzov, 18 of the victims were Bosniaks while the identity of one victim remains unknown. They resided in Serbia and Montenegro, namely in Belgrade, Prijepolje, Bijelo Polje and Podgorica.
On occasion of the murders’ thirtieth anniversary in February of this year, NGOs recalled that while 14 persons have been sentenced for the crime, so far only two of the verdicts are legally-binding.
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