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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 ...
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 ...
In February 2016, the Bosnian state court's appeals chamber upheld Planincic's 11-year prison sentence while acquitting Menzil and Vratac. [2] Lisancic had since passed away. In July of that same year, an Austrian court in Linz sentenced another Bosniak man who had Austrian citizenship, to 10 years in prison for his participation in the ...
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.
Entered into the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Berlin International Film Festival, Festival du Film de Paris, New York Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival; Special Mention Award at the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival: Gori vatra: Images from the Corner: Ljeto u zlatnoj dolini: Summer in the Golden Valley A Normal Life
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.
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.