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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 ...
In cooperation with the 330th light brigade (330. lahka brigada) and 319th liberation brigade (319. oslobodilačka brigada), the 7th Muslim brigade managed to capture over 100 km 2 from the VRS' 27th motorized brigade (27. motorizovana brigada) on the so-called Teslić-Šerić front during the month-long offensive, taking control of the ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The siege of Mostar was fought during the Bosnian War first in 1992 and then again later in 1993 to 1994. Initially lasting between April 1992 and June 1992, it involved the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) fighting against the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared its independence from ...