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The Glogova massacre was the mass murder of 64 Bosniak civilians by Serb forces, consisting of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), Bratunac Territorial Defence (TO), local police, and paramilitaries from Serbia, on 9 May 1992.
The Orašlje massacre was the mass murder of approximately 15 Bosniak civilians by members of the Croatian Defence Council in June 1993, during the Croat–Bosniak War.There was a massacre at the same place committed by the Ustaše and the Germans 50 years before this one.
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 ...
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.
The attack began at 05:30 hours on 16 April 1993. The Croat Defence Council (HVO) shelled the Bosniak part of Ahmići and moved in killing many Bosniaks, including women, children and the elderly. They destroyed a large number of Bosniak homes, and caused extensive damage to the village's two mosques. An estimate puts the death toll at 120.
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.
Croatian Defence Council (HVO) members killed 45 Bosniak civilians aged 19 to 82 in Vrbanja, and crimes against Bosniaks were also committed in the settlements of Vrpeč, Crniče, Donjići and Čaušlije . [2] On July 17, 1993, a Croatian civilian was killed while driving through Vrbanja in civilian clothes, shorts and without any weapons. [3]
Croatian sources state that up to 200 Croats were killed by Bosniak forces in war crimes during and after the Battle of Bugojno, of which between 70 and 85 people were civilian victims. [41] [42] After the war, the SFOR estimated in 1997 that the ethnic composition of the municipality was 38,000 (94%) Bosniaks, 2,000 (5%) Croats and 400 (1% ...