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The Here massacre is the name for a war crime committed by the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) against Bosniak civilians in the village of Here on 24 January 1994, during operation Tvigi 94, [1] of the Croat-Bosniak War. [2] [3]
A Bosnian court accused him in 2020 for the massacre in Štrpci, but Lukić, imprisoned in Estonia, refused to acknowledge it. [2] In 2023, a court in Sarajevo sentenced seven Bosnian Serbs to 91 years in prison for murdering 20 non-Serbian civilians from the train. [1] The Bosniak youth saved by Buzov survived the war and has three children. [2]
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 ...
On 18 December 1992, the U.N. General Assembly resolution 47/121 in its preamble deemed ethnic cleansing to be a form of genocide stating: [23] [24]. Gravely concerned about the deterioration of the situation in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina owing to intensified aggressive acts by the Serbian and Montenegrin forces to acquire more territories by force, characterized by a consistent ...
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 ...
At the outset of the Bosnian War, Serb forces attacked the non-Serb civilian population in Eastern Bosnia.Once towns and villages were securely in their hands, Serb forces—i.e. the military, the police, the paramilitaries and, sometimes, even Serb villagers—applied the same pattern: Bosniak houses and apartments were systematically ransacked or burnt down while Bosniak civilians were ...
Bosniak civilians and members of Bosnian Territorial Defence were detained in the camp on two occasions: first, after the Croatian Defence Council attack on the municipality in January 1993 and, secondly, after the attacks in the Lašva Valley in April 1993. In January several hundred Bosniak men were detained. In May 1993, 79 detainees were ...
Day after day, truckloads of Bosniak civilians were taken down to the bridge and riverbank by Army of Republika Srpska paramilitaries, unloaded, shot, and thrown into the river. On 10 June 1992, Milan Lukić entered the Varda factory and collected seven Bosniak men from their workstations. He thereafter took them down to the bank of the Drina ...