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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Zvornik massacre refers to acts of mass murder and violence committed against Bosniaks and other non-Serb civilians in Zvornik by Serb paramilitary groups [2] [3] [4] (Arkanovci, Territorial Defence units, White Eagles, Yellow Wasps [5]) at the beginning of the Bosnian War in 1992.
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 ...
First big massacre was Lapsunj massacre when HVO killed 21 Bosniak civilian on 23 August 1992. [citation needed] During 1993, the HVO carried out an almost complete expulsion of the Bosniak population from the occupied territory. Military-capable Bosniaks (about 1,000) were deported to camps in Prozor or western Herzegovina. On August 28, 1993 ...
The Korićani Cliffs massacre was the mass murder of more than 200 Bosniak and Bosnian Croat men on 21 August 1992, during the Bosnian War, at the Korićani Cliffs on Mount Vlašić in central Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Kiseljak massacre was the mass murder of approximately 78 Bosniak civilians by members of the Croatian Defence Council in June 1993, during the Croat–Bosniak War.The massacre was committed by the political and military leadership of the Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia.