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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Bosniak Muslims, particularly in Eastern Bosnia, comprised a large contingent of Ustashe units in the region and played a large role in the genocide of ethnic Serbs in the area that began in 1941. Bosniaks, later in the war, also joined the Waffen SS units that were notorious for their cruelty to the Serbian population.
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 ...
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]
The Doboj shelling was carried out by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) during its attacks on the city in 1992 and 1994 in the Bosnian War. [1] [2] The ARBiH fired at the city with its artillery, resulting in the deaths of many Serbian civilians.
The Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing, also known as the Lašva Valley case, refers to numerous war crimes committed during the Bosnian war by the Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia's political and military leadership on Bosniak or Bosnian Muslim civilians in the Lašva Valley region of Bosnia-Herzegovina.