Koprivica: In the "Lora 3" camp, Montenegrin citizens were brutally tortured, abused and killed

Members of the Montenegrin Parliament finished the discussion on the conclusions of the Committee for Political System, Judiciary and Administration, which stipulated that it is necessary to launch an initiative to revise the Agreement between the State Prosecutor's Offices of Montenegro and Croatia on cooperation and prosecution of perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, with with a special emphasis on the investigation of the "Lora 3" case.

The Parliament will make a statement on the Committee's conclusions later.

Reports with proposed conclusions were submitted to the parliament based on the control hearings on the implementation of the Agreement held on January 16 and February 6.

Chairman of the Committee and MP of Democratic Montenegro, Momo Koprivica, said that Montenegrin citizens from the Nikšić-Šavnica and Bar reservists of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) were brutally tortured, abused and killed in the "Lora 3" camp.

"The Committee for the Political System, Judiciary and Administration also adopted a set of evaluations and positions, and with the proposed conclusions, this Assembly would express a clear, civilized attitude towards this crime," said Koprivica.

He pointed out that innocent people who had done nothing to anyone, nor had anyone accused them of anything, went through the crucifixion:

""Lora 3" is not only a symbol of crimes without punishment, not only a symbol of human suffering, not only a symbol of the darkening of the mind, the industry of evil - but also of the astonishing silence of the competent state institutions, of the cover-up by the highest state-political leadership," emphasized Koprivica.

He pointed out that no one was responsible for the brutal, brutal and barbaric treatment of prisoners of war.

"Those people, charged with a military call-up, are from the man who is leaving the post of President of Montenegro today. After he charged them with a military call-up, at a time when he said that he did not play chess on a chessboard, after that they were... washing his political biography, he renounced. He renounced innocent people, his fellow citizens, which is morally and state-politically unacceptable," said Koprivica.

Member of the Democratic Front (DF) Jovan Vučurović said during the discussion that these people were deliberately forgotten by the previous regime and that is why it is necessary to look at the Agreement between the State Prosecutors' Offices of Montenegro and Croatia not only from a legal point of view, but also from a moral point of view to conclude that the previous government humiliated the Black Goru and its citizens.

The agreement between the two prosecutor's offices was signed in 2006 by the then VDT ​​Vesna Medenica, and from the Croatian side, Mladen Bajić.

"In this case - how it humiliated its citizens who died in Lora in Split. This is an example of how the previous government treated Croatia submissively and servilely. In the Agreement, Croatia has a completely free hand - it can act in relation to some war crimes, while are in Montenegro. By the will of the government at the time, their hands were tied to deal with investigations of war crimes against their own citizens," Vučurović pointed out.

The head of the Socialist People's Party (SNP) deputies' club, Dragan Ivanović, said that 20 prisoners were killed, and that it is important for the Assembly to show the families of the victims that there is someone in Montenegro who takes care of them.

"I can't believe that in the 20th century someone can behave like that. And who are the people who managed the camp at that time, to be like that - so they are also connected to some ministers. Who at this moment can anyone to justify that those perpetrators cannot be found, because it is a closed space-camp," he said.

The Assembly noted that the parliamentary mandate of Dragica Anđelić (SDP) has begun, who will replace Draginja Vuksanović Stanković, who resigned from all party functions and the post of MP, in the parliamentary benches.

DF MP Jelena Božović said that April marks the 31st year since one of the most monstrous crimes perpetrated by man against man.

"No normal human brain can understand or accept what happened there," said Božović.

She pointed out that it is tragic that in the past 30 years, the Montenegrin authorities, with Milo Đukanović and the former regime, decided that, knowing everything, as a state, they were silent and covered up all the crimes that happened against the citizens of Montenegro.

SNP deputy Milosava Paunović said that "Montenegro humbled itself so much that it forgave its people."

She said that 20 reserve soldiers from Montenegro were brutally tortured and killed in 1992.

"There were over a hundred methods of torture there, especially for civilians, especially for soldiers. I was amazed at what the human mind could think of. Those of our citizens were tortured the most, "Lora 3" was the most notorious camp...", said Paunović.

Paunović said that in 2006, Montenegro signed a "shameful Agreement" with Croatia, according to which only our citizens who committed war crimes are prosecuted, while Montenegro forgave its citizens who died there.