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Sarajevo – For almost 20 years, Serbian Ratko Nikolić and his two brothers have tried unsuccessfully to return their properties in the Stup settlement in Sarajevo, which was occupied by Sarajevo businessman Nihad Helać and opened a private company “Drvoseča”. All of Nikolic’s previous attempts to obtain his ancestry, including a lawsuit that has spanned nearly two decades, have been unsuccessful. Thousands of other expelled Sarajevo Serbs, whose property was stolen, have or are experiencing the same difficulties.
Ratko Nikolic, who is on the verge of 80, says that he is running out of strength and that he understands more and more that he cannot live in the city where he was born and where he lived until the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, when he had to leave . exercise your legal rights. There is no justice, he says, and “there is not and cannot be a return of the expelled Serbs”, because, he says, that does not benefit the political Sarajevo and, therefore, not the Sarajevo courts with which the powerful there ” , like Helac, who acquires wealth on my property, they have strong connections.
“Three of our houses, which were intact when we left them and entered the abyss, no longer exist, so to speak. All ancillary facilities, two workshops, mine and my brother’s, were demolished. The entire property, over 1,520 square meters, has been converted into a lumber yard. “Now there are trucks, excavators and chainsaw workers,” Nikolic told Politika.
He also addressed High Representative Valentin Inzko, with the conviction that he would undoubtedly understand and help him to return his property, because Inzko is “someone who often, especially when talking about the return of refugees, emphasizes that private property it is inviolable. ” However, he notes, his expectations were unrealistic, because Inzko, he says, “is obviously not interested in the problems of the Serbs.” He told Nikolic that he should go to the prosecution.
“We offered to end the judicial process with a settlement, but he refused, he believed that we overestimated the value of our property, and we asked him for three houses and everything else he compared,” said Hellac, the usurper of our property and everything we had acquired over the years. with foundations, a total of 300,000 KM (about 150,000 euros) “, explains Nikolić, noting that Helać justifies his illegal behavior, among other things, claiming that” there is no clear boundary between the plots of his company and the lands owned by Nikolić “.
The case of Ratko Nikolić, who continued his life in Bijeljina and who says that, although in his old age, he continues to fight for his property, is just one of many, when it comes to Serbs expelled from Ilidža in Sarajevo, to the which also belongs to the settlement of Stup. By the way, the municipality of Ilidža, predominantly Serbian before the war, has long been one of the most attractive destinations for the citizens of the Persian Gulf countries, as evidenced by the many facilities it owns, built mainly in Serbian lands usurped or bought for little money.
Thus, in Ilidža, not only the majority of pre-war Serbs no longer exist, but also Cyrillic, and even Latin, all the inscriptions that can be seen in restaurants, shops, hairdressers… are written in Arabic. In the area of this favorite Sarajevans’ pre-war seaside resort, at this time, you can mainly meet people who speak Arabic, wear long dresses and worship (pray to God) on the streets or green areas.
Commenting on the fate of the Ilidža Serbs and the seizure of their property, Dušan Šehovac from the Association “Democratic Initiative of Sarajevo Serbs” once told our newspaper that in Ilidža “the people of Sarajevo no longer drink He came, but the Aga from Qatar smokes hookah and drinks tea. “
Recently, the Serbian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, recalled the expulsion of some 150,000 Serbs from Sarajevo and the property they left in a larger area of that city. In a statement to a Sarajevo television station, Dodik said that these Serbs owned property in Sarajevo worth the famous 50 billion kilometers (“about 25 billion euros”). He mentioned, among other things, the apartments that the expelled Serbs were selling because they are still trying to regain ownership over them.
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