The commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the crimes against soldiers of the former Yugoslav Peoples' Army (JNA) in Sarajevo's Dobrovoljacka Street passed without incident on Tuesday, although the Sarajevo Canton police violated an earlier agreement by not allowing a three-member Serbian delegation to lay wreaths at the place of the suffering of the soldiers, citing security reasons.

About one hundred people comprised of victims' family members, representatives of NGO veterans' organizations and Republika Srpska (RS) government lit candles and laid white roses in the vicinity of the Dobrovljacka Street, which now bears the name of Hamdi Krusevljakovic.

The gathering was held with strong police presence.

Nobody has yet faced court charges for the war crime in Dobrovoljacka Street.

According to the Center for investigation of war crimes of RS, a total of 42 people were killed in Dobrovoljacka Street - 10 officers, 28 soldiers and four citizens, and according to ethnic structure, there were 32 Serbs, four Croats, and six Bosniaks.

The case has been investigated by the Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Prosecutor's Office for years, and according to recent promises the fate of the case should be known June this year.

Based on a Serbian arrest warrant for the Dobrovoljacka Street crime, a wartime BiH Presidency member, Ejup Ganic, was arrested in London last year, but was later released. This year, also based on a Serbian arrest warrant, wartime BiH Army General Jovan Divjak was arrested in Vienna, currently pending a court decision regarding his extradition to Serbia.

While Serbs were paying tribute to the soldiers killed in Dobrovoljacka Street, the Islamic Community in BiH, as quoted by local media, presented late Monday Ejup Ganic with the public recognition 'ALEM bosanskog gazije' in memory of the 1992 events in Dobrovoljacka Street.

Ganic is the first holder of the award, which will be assigned by the Islamic community in the future to those who worked for the benefit of the Bosniak people, the Islamic religion and the state of BiH.