PRESS STATEMENT

The appeal to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to light up the circumstances
under which Cvijan Radic was murdered

 

According to the statement of a witness, a body was found in the Crno jezero in the Bosanska Dubica vicinity on 07 February 1997. The body was later identified as Cvijan Radic, born in 1953 in Bosanska Dubica.
Cvijan Radic, of Serb nationality, was employed as a civil engineering inspector up until the beginning of the war. When the war began he was appointed to the Bihac Municipality Commission for Housing of Refugees.
In autumn 1994, Radic left the Bihac district area with the permission of the military and civilian authorities. According to some sources, he has lived in Banja Luka since then.
At the beginning of February 1997, Radic arrived in Bihac. According to a witness from the doorman's booth of the Bihac municipality, whose testimony wasn't confirmed, two unidentified men took away Radic on 3 February 1997. The first news about Radic's death appeared on 5 February.
The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights is requesting that the Police investigate this murder, inform the public and bring the perpetrators to justice.


Sarajevo, 17 February 1997
No: 15A-02/97