Mother and daughter Gordana Krdžić and Ivana Maksimović, in their shocking testimony in the Basic Court in Podgorica yesterday, told how they lost their thirteen-year-old daughter and sister in the bombing of Murin in 1999, who, according to them, would still be alive today if the authorities had warned the citizens in any way. that the town near Plavo will be bombed.
They sued the state, i.e. the Ministry of the Interior, the Police Directorate and the Ministry of Defense and are demanding 35.000 euros in damages, because they believe that these state bodies could have prevented the suffering of innocent civilians in the NATO bombing of Murin at the end of April 1999.
Maksimović stated that that spring their mother and aunt, who remained in Pristina, sent them from Kosovo to Murino to their grandmother, in order to protect them from bombings and members of paramilitary formations. That day, she claims, she went to the store with her sister and two cousins, because they wanted to make cakes for their mother and aunt, who were expected to join them at the family home in Murin.
"Olivera and Juliana entered the store, and Teodora and I were waiting for them by the bridge. Two planes flew over, one very low, Teodora started screaming, I grabbed her and started running towards the nearest building, because that's what we were taught because of the events in Kosovo. I hid her under the stairs and wanted to go back for the two of them, but it was too late, because the store had been hit by a bomb. Everything happened in a few minutes," said the sister of the late Olivera.
"That day I also died. I just remember that I took a stone full of blood on which there were traces of the hair of Olivera and Juliana", said the mother of the dead girl
She added that on that day they bombed Murino for the first time without any announcement and that 17 bombs were dropped on that town that day.
"Baba found them dead and we buried them together in Murin. It's been very difficult for me since it happened, I lie down and wake up with those pictures, it's indescribable," said Maksimović through tears.
Krdžić barely told that she has been sleeping for an hour a night for 13 years and that she has been mentally ill since her little girl and her nine-year-old cousin were killed.
She emphasized that on that day there were no sirens, nor any other information that there would be a bombing of Murin.
She added that she had a wartime and work obligation in Pristina, because when the bombing started, she received a military call-up, so she sent her children to Murino, thinking that they would be safe there.
"That day I also died. I just remember that I took a stone full of blood on which there were traces of the hair of Olivera and Juliana", said the mother of the dead girl.
In the lawsuit, among other things, it is written that during the 72 days that the bombing lasted, the NATO alliance announced the bombing actions through the country's military police and political structures and that our state authorities must have known about the throwing of missiles at Murino and that they should have warn vulnerable citizens about it.
The trial continues in October.
Murić: Negligence of the state
The legal representative of the injured families, Velija Murić, emphasized, after the trial, that none of the authorities and institutions of the state had warned the citizens of Murin of the impending danger and consequences of the bombing, and that it was necessary to establish those omissions and initiate criminal proceedings against those who did not inform the citizens in time that will be bombarded with sound or other signals.
"The state's piety towards the victims in the sense of contributing to the construction of the memorial or any gesture in terms of commemorating the event was also missing. There was no compensation for damages, even if the state knows full well that Murin's victims, in the classic sense of the word, were victims of the state and its retrograde policy at the time, which, due to the growing pogrom against the people, actually invoked the measures of the NATO alliance, Murić believes.
He reminded that in Serbia the man who hid information about the shelling of the RTS building is serving a twelve-year prison sentence.
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