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A war cabinet was set up in the city and a multi-ethnic police and army force were set up at the onset of hostilities. At the onset of the Bosnian civil war, JNA troops were still manning a garrison in the center of Tuzla and were under a virtual siege. On 15 May 1992, Tuzla authorities agreed to peacefully allow Yugoslav troops to withdraw ...
The Višegrad massacres were acts of mass murder committed against the Bosniak civilian population of the town and municipality of Višegrad during the ethnic cleansing of eastern Bosnia by Republika Srpska police and military forces during the spring and summer of 1992, at the start of the Bosnian War.
The town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina was seized by Bosnian Serb forces in April 1992 during the first days of the Bosnian War.Bosnian Serb members of the local Territorial Defence (TO), supported by local Bosnian Serb police and some members of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), quickly overcame heavily overmatched local Bosnian Muslim police and reserve police elements ...
Bosnian Serb police units kill more than 200 Bosniaks, Croats and other non-Serb civilians. [citation needed] Kukavice massacre: 27 August 1992 Kukavice, near Rogatica: ARBiH: Serbs: 21 Bosniak forces kill 21 Bosnian Serbs. [66] Mičivode massacre: 20 September 1992 Mičivode, near Sokolac: VRS: Bosniaks: 42 42 Bosniak civilians were killed by ...
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 ...
Bosnia's state police on Friday arrested seven former members of the Bosnian Serb wartime army suspected of taking part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslims, described as ...
On the morning of 22 October 1992, a bus traveling from Rudo, Bosnia, to Priboj in the Sandžak area of Serbia, was stopped in the Bosnian village of Mioče by four members of the Osvetnici (Avengers) paramilitary unit under the command of Milan Lukić. The other members of the group were Oliver Krsmanović, Dragutin Dragicević, and Đorđe ...
The Bijeljina massacre involved the killing of civilians by Serb paramilitary extermination 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.