The Ultimate Bosnian Genocide - American History Information Guide and Reference

The Bosnian Genocide was an organized murder of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) during the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995, where authorities of Republika Srpska and its Army targeted for extinction a wide group of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks). The Bosnian Genocide has been proven at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) through the court case entitled Prosecutor vs Krstic (see Srebrenica Massacre), with the presentation of evidence implicating the killing of an estimated 10,000 persons, predominantly Bosniaks. Exact numbers are still being investigated, and are widely disputed.

Statement by Radovan Karadžić, co-founder of Republika Srpska and its first president, alluded to the origins of this ideology on March 4, 1992 to the Bosnian Parliament:

..."the road to which you want to take Bosnia and Herzegovina is the same highway of hell which Slovenia and Croatia took. Don't think you won't take Bosnia and Herzegovina to hell and the Muslims into annihilation... Muslims can't defend themselves if there is war here"...

Statements by Jovan Rašković, founder of the Serbian Democratic Party of Croatia:

"I feel responsible because I made the preparations for this war, even if not the military preparations. If I hadn’t created this emotional strain in the Serbian people, nothing would have happened.

"My party and I lit the fuse of Serbian nationalism not only in Croatia but everywhere else in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It’s impossible to imagine an SDP (Serbian Democratic Party) in Bosnia-Herzegovina or a Mr. Karadzic in power without our influence.

"We have driven this people and we have given it an identity. I have repeated again and again to this people that it comes from heaven, not earth."

Killings admitted as evidence at ICTY

The following list represents the evidence admitted at the ICTY in its genocide trials. Bosnian Herzegovinian Commission for Missing Persons claims that the number of killings is much greater than has been currently represented at the tribunal. Bodies are being discovered and identified at almost daily basis to support their claims.

Breakdown of confirmed killings by city or region

Banja Luka

In Manjaca camp, 2 non-Serb men were killed.
At Manjaca camp, approximately 7 non-Serbs were killed after being transported from Hasan Kikic Sports Hall in Sanski Most.
Between Krings camp and Manjaca camp, approximately 20 non-Serb men were killed during transportation between the camps.
At Manjaca camp, at least 8 non-Serb men were killed in front of camp after their transportation from Omarska camp

Bileca

In SUP Detention facility, 2 non-Serb detainees killed.

Bijeljina

In Bijeljina, at least 48 Bosnian Muslim and/or Bosnian Croat men, women and children were killed.

Bosanska Krupa

In Petar Kocic Elementary School, approximately 11 non-Serb detainees were killed.

Bosanski Novi

In Blagaj Japra, 7 Bosnian Muslim men were killed during the expulsion of Bosnian Muslims.
In Alici, 27 Bosnian Muslim men were killed.

Bosanski Samac

In Crkvina camp, approximately 17 non-Serb detainees were killed.

Bratunac

In Glogova, approximately 65 Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat civilians killed by members of the JNA, acting together with Serb paramilitary forces.
In Vuk Karadzic school, at least 14 non-Serb men were killed.

Brcko

In Brcko, approximately 12 Bosnian Muslim males and other non-Serbs were killed at the Hotel Posavina.
In Luka Camp, approximately 30-35 Bosnian Muslim detainees were executed.

Cajnice

At Mostina Hunting Lodge, 53 non-Serbs killed.

Foca

In Filipovici, at least 5 Bosnian Muslims were killed by Serb soldiers in a military warehouse.
In Jelec, 18 Bosnian Muslims, including elderly people and 8 members of one family, were executed by JNA soldiers.
In Brod, 14 Bosnian Muslim men from Trnovaca were executed by Serb soldiers.
In Livade camp, a number of non-Serb detainees were killed.
At KP Dom prison, at least 266 Bosnian Muslim detainees were killed.

Gacko

2 Muslim males killed by Serbs in a field near Mount Zelengora.
At least 8 Muslims killed by Serb soldiers near Mount Zelengora.
5 Bosnian men killed in the SUP building in Gacko.

Ilijas (Greater Sarajevo)

In Ljesevo, 21 Bosnian Muslims were killed.

Kalinovik

Approximately 23 Muslim men and boys from the Gunpowder warehouse shot in a field near Ratine.

Kljuc

In Prhovo, 38 Bosnian Muslim villagers, including women and children, were killed by shooting and grenades.
In Biljani, at least 30 elderly Muslim men were killed.
In Velagici, approximately 100 Bosnian Muslim men were killed.

Kotor Varos

In Kotor Varos town, approximately 13 non-Serbs were killed in and around the Medical Centre.
In a barn in Dabovici, at least 15 Bosnian Muslim men were killed.
In Grabovice, a large number of Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat detainees were held in the Grabovice School, beaten and never seen again.

Nevesinje

At or near Lipovaca and Dubrovaci, at least 34 Bosnian Muslim men, women and children were killed
Near Kiser, approximately 17 Bosnian Muslim civilians were killed by Serb soldiers.

Prijedor

In the Brdo region numerous non-Serbs were killed.
In Hambarine and Behlici, at least 3 Bosnian Muslims were killed.
In Kamicani, approximately 8 non-Serbs were killed in Mehmed Sahoric's house.
In Jaskic, at least 19 Bosnian Muslim men were killed.
In Biscani, about 40 non-Serbs were killed.
In Carakovo, at least 19 Bosnian Muslims were killed.
In Brisevo, at least 68 non-Serbs were killed during the attack.
In Kipe iron ore mine (near Ljubija), at least 8 Bosnian Muslim men were executed.
In Ljubija, at least 3 Bosnian Muslim men were executed at the football stadium.
In Tomasica, 4 non-Serbs were killed.
In Trnopolje camp, at least 2 non-Serbs were killed.
In Omarska camp, hundreds of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats were killed.
In Keraterm camp, approximately 150 non-Serbs were killed.
On Vlasic mountain in Skender Vakuf municipality, approximately 200 Bosnian Muslim and/or Bosnian Croat males from Trnopolje camp were killed.

Prnjavor

In Lisnja, 4 Bosnian Muslim men were executed.

Sanski Most

In Hrustovo, at least 24 Bosnian Muslim women and children were killed.
On or near Vrhpolje bridge, at least 13 Bosnian Muslim men from Begici were killed.
In Sanski Most, a number of non-Serbs were killed near the Partisan cemetery.
In Kenjari, 19 Bosnian Muslim men were killed in Dujo Banovic’s house.
In Budin, 12 members of one family were killed.
In Donji Kruhari near Skrljevita, 5 Bosnian Croat men were killed.
In Trnova near Sanski Most town, approximately 11 non-Serb men were executed by members of Arkan’s Tigers.
In Sasina, at least 65 non-Serb men were executed by members of Arkan's Tigers under the direct command of Arkan.
Near Hrastova Glavica, approximately 100 non-Serb men taken from Keraterm and Omarska camps were killed.
In Sanski Most town, at least 2 non-Serb men were killed in the Hotel Sana by Arkan’s Tigers.
At Sanakeram ceramics factory, at least 10 non-Serb men were killed.

Following the take-over of Srebrenica, several thousand Bosnian Muslim men were executed by Bosnian Serb forces, including at the following locations:

Cerska Valley, approximately 150 Bosnian Muslim men;
Kravica warehouse (Zvornik Municipality), approximately 1,000 Bosnian Muslim men;
Orahovac (Zvornik Municipality), approximately 1,000 Bosnian Muslim men;
Petkovci Dam (Zvornik Municipality), approximately 1,500 - 2,000 Bosnian Muslim men;
Branjevo Military Farm (Zvornik Municipality), approximately 1,000 – 1,200 Bosnian Muslim men;
Pilica Cultural Dom (Zvornik Municipality), approximately 500 Bosnian Muslim men;
Kozluk (Zvornik Municipality), at least 340 Bosnian Muslim men.

Rogatica

Near Crvenka, at least 10 Bosnian Muslim males from Visegrad were executed.

Teslic

In Teslic town, at least 5 non-Serb men were killed at the Territorial Defence building.

Visegrad

In Nova Mahala (Visegrad town), over 60 Bosnian Muslim and/or Bosnian Croat civilians from Koritnik were burnt to death in a house ignited by Serb paramilitaries led by Milan Lukic.
In Bikavac settlement, approximately 70 Bosnian Muslim and other non-Serb civilians were burnt to death in a house ignited by Serb paramilitaries led by Milan Lukic.

Vlasenica

In Drum (Vlasenica town), approximately 22 Bosnian Muslim men were killed.
In Zaklopaca, at least 58 Bosnian Muslim men, women and children were executed during the Serb attack on the village.
At Susica camp, at least 6 non-Serb male detainees were killed.

Zvornik

In Zvornik town, 15 Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat males were executed by Arkan's soldiers.
In Drinjaca, at least 55 Bosnian Muslim men were killed.
At Ekonomija farm, Karakaj, approximately 6 non-Serb detainees were killed.
At Novi Izvor building, at least 2 non-Serb male detainees were killed.
At Celopek Dom Kulture, at least 30 non-Serb male detainees were killed.
At Karakaj Technical School, approximately 110 Bosnian Muslim males were killed.
At Gero’s slaughter-house, approximately 190 non-Serb detainees were killed.

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The Eight Stages of Genocide

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