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Many deaths in Bijeljina were not officially listed as civilian war victims and their death certificates claim they "died of natural causes." [92] After the war ended, less than 2,700 people of the pre-war Bosniak population of over 30,000 still lived in the municipality of Bijeljina (the town itself had 19,000 Bosniak inhabitants [9]). Many ...
On the Serbian Eastern Orthodox holy feast of Petrovdan on 12 July 1992, Bosniak forces, allegedly under the command of Naser Orić, attacked the villages of Zalazje and Sase in the municipality of Srebrenica and Biljača and Zagoni in the municipality of Bratunac, killing a total of 69 Bosnian Serb soldiers and civilians. [2] [4] [8] At least ...
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 ...
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.
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]
Anti-Bosniak sentiment, anti-Croat sentiment, Serbianisation, Greater Serbia During the Bosnian War , there was an ethnic cleansing campaign committed by the Bosnian Serb political and military leadership – Army of the Republika Srpska , mostly against Bosniak and Croat civilians in the Prijedor region of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 and 1993.
The 1992 Yugoslav People's Army column incident in Sarajevo occurred on 3 May 1992 in Dobrovoljačka Street, Sarajevo, when members of the Bosnian army (ARBiH) attacked a convoy of the Yugoslav army (JNA) troops that were exiting the city of Sarajevo according to the withdrawal agreement.
Potočari Memorial Stone. Bosnian genocide denial is the act of denying the occurrence of the systematic genocide against the Bosniak Muslim population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or asserting it did not occur in the manner or to the extent that has been established by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) through ...