Share :

Download PDF :

BalkanInsight (27 February 2023)

Milica Stojanovic

On the 30th anniversary of the abduction and subsequent massacre of 20 passengers from a train in Strpci in Bosnia, witnesses to the crime, victims’ relatives and perpetrators of the atrocity tell the disturbing story of how it happened.

On February 27, 1993, notorious war criminal Milan Lukic led around 20 Bosnian Serb Army soldiers and members of the Avengers paramilitary group to a railway station in the village of Strpci in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Lukic and his fighters stopped a train number 671 that was travelling from Belgrade to Bar in Montenegro, seized 20 passengers, took them away and killed them. Eighteen of the victims were Bosniaks, one was a retired Yugoslav People’s Army and the identity of the other passenger has never been established. Only four of their bodies have been found so far.

Click for more