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Before the war, in 1991, the population of the municipality had been 40.14% Bosniak (41,164), 38.83% Serb (39,820), 12.93% Croat (13,264), 5.62% Yugoslav (5,765) and others 2.48% (2,536). [5] The town and surrounding villages were seized by Serb forces in May 1992 with the Serbian Democratic Party taking over the governing of the city. What ...
The events in Srebrenica in 1995 included the killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys, as well as the mass expulsion of another 25 000 – 30 000 Bosniak civilians by VRS units under the command of General Ratko Mladić. [10] [11] The ethnic cleansing that took place in VRS-controlled areas targeted Bosniaks and Bosnian ...
The Višegrad massacres were acts of mass murder committed against the Bosniak civilian population of the town and municipality of Višegrad during the ethnic cleansing of eastern Bosnia by Republika Srpska police and military forces during the spring and summer of 1992, at the start of the Bosnian War.
The Bijeljina massacre involved the killing of civilians by Serb paramilitary groups in Bijeljina on 1–2 April 1992 in the run-up to the Bosnian War. The majority of those killed were Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims). Members of other ethnicities were also killed, such as Serbs deemed disloyal by the local authorities.
Serb forces capture and kill 36 Bosniak civilians who were hiding in the woods. The corpses were burned in an effort to conceal the crime. [36] Višegrad massacres: April–August 1992 Višegrad: VRS, JNA: Bosniaks: 1000–3000 JNA and Serb-led paramilitaries killed an unverified number of Bosniak civilians thought to be around 3000.
On October 30 Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced him to 20 years in prison for a wartime massacre of 57 Bosniak civilians who were locked in a house and burned alive, including two children. [ 7 ]
About 675 Bosniak men and boys, from the multiple villages around Zvornik, were separated from their families by Serb forces, and slaughtered within a week at Bijeli Potok and their bodies hidden in mass graves throughout the Drina Valley. As of May 2020, the remains of about 245 of the victims have yet to be found. [2]
Appearing as a prosecution witness at the trial of members of the unit in 2009, Jefto Jankovic, former investigative judge with the Basic Court in Banja Luka, told how on 23 August 1992, after receiving a call from the Public Safety Station in Banja Luka, he went to Korićanske Stijene to conduct a crime-scene inspection: "We arrived there at about 3 pm We saw that the area was rocky, the ...