Families and public figures laid wreaths at three memorial sites in the southern city of Mostar on Thursday, commemorating 114 civilian victims of a mass killing which some claim to be the largest crime of the 1992-95 Bosnian war in that part of the country.

The atrocities that nobody has been held responsible for took place 27 years ago in the suburban settlements of Uborak and Sutina, at the very beginning of the war when members of former Yugoslav People's Army led by general Momcilo Perisic and Serb paramilitary units rounded the area.

The civilians were beaten, abused, tortured and humiliated and taken to the city’s JNA Sjeverni Logor barracks. After they were killed there, their bodies were thrown into two mass graves at garbage dumps in Mostar’s neighbourhoods of Sutina and Uborak.

Although the massacre is seen as the first case of mass war crimes in the area of Herzegovina, nobody has been convicted yet. The case was investigated and mostly documented in the late 1990s. 

“114 innocent Mostarians were brutally murdered on this date 27 years ago in Uborak and Sutina. Unfortunately, 27 long years later the victims’ families haven't seen that the executors and those who ordered it are processed and adequately punished by competent courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” said Adnin Hasic, head of the association gathering the families of the victims from Uborak and Sutina.

He urged the institutions to put maximum effort and bring to justice “the most responsible ones for this crime.”