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A "State Commission for the Free transfer of the Civilian Population" [63] or "Commission for the Exchange of Population" was created and headed by Vojkan Đurković, a major in the SDG, [64] and included Mauzer's Panthers. [65] Its purpose was to completely expel all non-Serbs from Bijeljina. [63]
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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.
Bosnian Croat forces kill 15 Bosniak civilians in Orašlje. [citation needed] Bivolje hill killings: 16 July 1993 Čaplinja: HVO: Bosniaks: 12 Bosnian Croat forces kill 12 Bosniak civilians. [88] [89] Vrbanja massacre: 17–28 July 1993 Vrbanja: HVO: Bosniaks: 45 Bosnian Croat forces kill 45 Bosniak civilians in Vrbanja. [citation needed ...
Potočari Memorial Stone. Bosnian genocide denial is the act of denying the occurrence of the systematic genocide against the Bosniak Muslim population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or asserting it did not occur in the manner or to the extent that has been established by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) through ...
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.