Two decades later, the silence is still the loudest. On the death railway near Bioč, where 47 passengers lost their lives and more than 200 were injured on January 23, 2006, the families of the victims are still seeking answers - who is to blame.
Binasa Halilović was on the train with her two children on January 23. She lost her seven-year-old daughter in the accident.
"All 20 years, all the promises, all of them, so we're in heaven. We're all in heaven. We come here, we pay our respects, but we're in heaven. No promises, there was a sea for us, but nothing ended. How I feel, God didn't give that to anyone," said surviving passenger Binasa Halilović.
The pain, says Halilović, remains the same, and the injustice deeper, which is why he announces that he will remind the government that even after two decades of waiting, the families still have no verdict that would clearly name responsibility.
The NGO "Voz nepreboloba" did not speak on camera today either. They said that the institutions have been silent about accountability for 20 years and that now their silence is a response to the system.
The wall of silence must be broken, said the Minister of Transport, emphasizing that the families' dissatisfaction is completely justified.
"For twenty years, there has been a wall of silence about this tragedy that has never been fully clarified. I have a promise from the MPs that next week they will sign the draft decision that we prepared on opening a parliamentary investigation, and I expect that the draft decision will be adopted at the first regular session of parliament, which is in March. After that, I hope that at that inquiry committee we will at least be able to talk about everything about which there was a wall of silence, and it is obvious that the families of those killed in the accident also have certain information that they want to share with representatives of parliament and with all representatives of the public, and I hope that someone will finally react," said Minister of Transport Maja Vukićević.
Vukićević points out that it is unacceptable that responsibility for an accident in which 47 people died be reduced to one man.
"As long as I'm here, I will try to help these people so that we can finally get to the truth and fully shed light on this difficult tragedy, because it is impossible for the train driver to be the only one responsible in the end. Someone sent him on that journey and someone sent that train in the condition in which he sent it on its journey," she stressed.
Twenty years later, families and survivors still stand in the same place, between memories, pain, and questions that the state of Montenegro has not yet answered.
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