Victims of the crime in Štrpci will not be able to exercise their rights based on the draft law proposed by the Minister of Social Welfare, Family Care and Demography Damir Gutić from the Bosniak Party (BS), Sead Šahman, president of the Bosniak Democratic Movement (BDP), announced today.
He wrote on his Facebook profile that February 27th of this year will mark the 32nd anniversary of the crimes in Štrpci.
He stated that Bosniak representatives from the Government will again lay wreaths this year in the "Pobrežje" park in Podgorica or at the "Hour of Life" memorial in Bijelo Polje, and that until next February they will again remain silent about this crime in which 1993 innocent people died in 20.
Šahman said that at the end of last year, the Government of Montenegro adopted a draft Law on Veterans' and Disability Protection at an electronic session, without a public debate, at the proposal of the relevant Ministry of Social Welfare, Family Care and Demography.
"Although at the end of 2023, as a then MP and vice president of the ruling party with a Bosniak background, he advocated for what were the proposals of the NGOs 'Štrpci - Against Forgetting' and 'Action for Human Rights', Damir Gutić, in his role as the relevant minister, proposed something completely different. The Štrbač victims will not be able to exercise their rights based on this proposed legal solution because they have 'outgrown' the law, which in this format stipulates that rights can only be exercised up to the age of 27, provided that the children are in school," said Šahman.
He stated that the youngest child of the Štrbački victims is now 35 years old and, in accordance with this legal solution, will not be able to exercise any rights.
"The total number of people who would exercise the right without an age limit is 25 people, and they should not represent a burden on the state. This text is discriminatory, and should not go through the parliamentary procedure to which it was referred by the executive branch," said Šahman.
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