Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 12, 2022
Photo: rtrs.tv
An Orthodox cemetery in Bosnia and Herzegovina was desecrated on Sunday night. Unknown vandals wrote threats against Serbs and drew symbols of the Croatian Ustaše on the cemetery walls.
The threats on the cemetery walls in Mostar read: “Serbian family of 13. The mass grave has already been dug. I throw a grenade—12 deaths, and I stab the last survivor with a pitchfork,” “We Croats don’t drink wine, only the blood of Chetniks from Kin!” and, “The Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia,” reports rtrs.tv.
Ustaše symbols were also graffitied on the cemetery gates, referencing the Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška concentration camps where Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies suffered.
Local Serbs reported that they feared for their safety after seeing the threats at the cemetery.
Archpriest Nebojša Radić reported the incident to the police and Ministry of Internal Affairs. Recently, about 700 Serbian gravestones were also destroyed at the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar, he recalled.
Orthodox cemeteries and churches are constantly under attack in Bosnia and Herzegovina, commented George Radanović, the Chairman of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1,100 Orthodox cemeteries have been vandalized, he said, and many graves lie under mounds of garbage and even animal corpses that are intentionally dumped on their graves.
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