The following is a list of massacres that occurred during the Bosnian War.
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Description |
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Sijekovac massacre | March 1992 | Sijekovac, near Bosanski Brod | 20[1]-47[2]-59[3] | Bosniak and Croat military units clashed with Bosnian Serb soldiers and murdered civilians. Republika Srpska reported 47 killed, but 59 bodies were later found, including 18 children, all ethnic Serbs.[3] Helsinki Watch reported that 20 were killed in March 1992, while other bodies were killed later in the war. Helsinki Watch could not verify civilian casualties in Sijekovac because the killings occurred during military warfare between the warring sides. The claims of murdered civilians in the case of Sijekovac come from the post-war Bosnian Serb authorities. |
Doboj ethnic cleansing (1992) | April–October 1992 | Doboj municipality | 322 Bosniaks 86 Croats | Mass-killings and persecution of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats by Bosnian Serb forces. |
Bijeljina massacre | 1–2 April 1992 | Bijeljina | 48–78 non-Serbs, mostly Bosniaks | Perpetrated by Arkan's Tigers, under the command of the Serb-controlled JNA[4] |
Kazani pit massacres | April 1992–October 1993 | Sarajevo | ~300[5] predominantly Serb civilians | During the Siege of Sarajevo, the forces of Mušan Topalović (nickname Caco), commander of the 10th Mountain Brigade in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, engage in a campaign of mass murder primarily targeting Sarajevo Serbs living in Bosniak-held areas. |
Foča ethnic cleansing | 7 April 1992 – January 1994 | Foča | 2,704 | Thousands of Bosniak civilians killed by Serb military, police and paramilitary forces. In a 1997 judgement against Novislav Đajić, the Bavarian Appeals Chamber ruled that the killings in which he was involved in June 1992 were acts of genocide.[6] |
Vidovice massacre | 29 April 1992 | Vidovice, near Orašje | 7 | Bosnian Serb forces kill 7 Bosnian Croats. |
Laništa and Ulice massacre | 8 May 1992 | Laništa and Ulice, near Brčko | 32 | Serb forces kill 32 Bosnian Croats. |
Donja Vrela massacre | 11–14 May 1992 | Donja Vrela, near Bosanski Brod | 15 | Serb forces kill 15 Bosnian Croat civilians. |
Tuzla's column | 15 May 1992 | Tuzla | 92 | Bosniak forces attack column of JNA soldiers peacefully withdrawing from Tuzla.[7] |
Bradina massacre | 25–27 May 1992 | Bradina | 48 | Bosniak and Croat forces kill 48 Serb civilians during an attack on the Serbian village of Bradina.[8] |
Čemerno massacre | 10 June 1992 | Čemerno, Ilijaš | 29–32 | ARBiH kill 21 captured VRS soldiers and 9 Serb civilians. |
Prijedor ethnic cleansing | 1992–1995 | Prijedor | 3,176, among them 102 children. | Bosnian Serb political and military campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Prijedor area, including massacres of civilians during offensives, and killings of prisoners in concentration camps and other detention facilities. 3,176 non-Serb civilians, mostly Bosniaks (but also Croats and others), were killed. Among the victims were 102 children and 256 women. More than 30,000 non-Serbs were detained in at least one of the concentration camps Trnopolje, Omarska and Keraterm. The largest mass grave found in Northern Bosnia to date is that of Tomasica where at least 360 bodies of non-Serb civilian casualties were buried. |
Zvornik massacre | 1992–1995 | Zvornik | 700-900 | Mass murder and violence committed against Bosniaks and other non-Serb civilians by Serb paramilitary groups. |
Snagovo massacre | 29 April 1992 | Snagovo | 36 | Serb forces capture and kill 36 Bosniak civilians who were hiding in the woods. The corpses were burned in an effort to conceal the crime. |
Crkvina massacre | 6 May 1992 | Crkvina, near Odžak | 16 | Bosnian Serb forces kill 16 Bosniaks and Croats.[9] |
Tišina massacre | 7 May 1992 | Tišina, Novo Selo, Tursinovac, Gornji Hasić and Donji Hasić, near Šamac | 45 | Bosnian Serb forces kill 45 Bosnian Croats across the Šamac municipality.[10] |
Glogova massacre | 9 May 1992 | Glogova, Bratunac | 64 | Serb forces kill 64 Bosniak civilians. |
Bosanska Jagodina massacre | 26 May 1992 | Bosanska Jagodina | 17 | Perpetrated by Serb paramilitary White Eagles members. The victims were Bosniaks. |
Bijeli Potok massacre | 1 June 1992 | Bijeli Potok | 668 | Serb forces slaughtered 668 Bosnian Muslim men and boys within a week at Bijeli Potok and hid their bodies in mass graves throughout the Drina Valley |
Uzborak massacre | 13 June 1992 | Uzborak landfill, Mostar | 114 | JNA and Serb Paramilitary units kill 114 non-Serb civilians (85 Bosniaks and 29 Croats) at a landfill site near Mostar.[11][12] |
Ahatovići massacre | 14 June 1992 | Ahatovići | 47 | Bosnian Serb forces kill 47 captured Bosniak soldiers. |
Pionirska Street fire | 14 June 1992 | Višegrad | 59 | Perpetrated by Serb paramilitary White Eagles members. The victims were Bosniak civilians. |
Paklenik massacre | 15 June 1992 | Rogatica | 50 | Perpetrated by VRS members. |
Bikavac fire | 27 June 1992 | Bikavac near Višegrad | 60 | Perpetrated by Serb paramilitary White Eagles members. The victims were Bosniak civilians. |
Muštanica massacre | 24 July 1992 | Muštanica, near Sanski Most | 13 | 13 Bosnian Croats killed by Bosnian Serb forces. |
Musala massacre | 15 July 1992 | Musala, "Mladost" hall, near Konjic | 13 | 13 Serb civilians, concentration camp prisoners, killed by Bosniak soldiers. |
Gornji Svilaj massacre | 16 July | Gornji Svilaj, near Odžak | 7 | Bosnian Serbs killed 7 elderly Bosnian Croat civilians in a church.[13] |
Stara Rijeka massacre | 24 July 1992 | Stara Rijeka, near Sanski Most | 13 | Bosnian Serb forces kill 13 Bosnian Croats. |
Barimo massacre | 2 August 1992 | Barimo | 26 | Serb paramilitary kill 26 Bosniaks. |
Grebnica massacre | 19 August 1992 | Grebnica, near Šamac | 11 | Bosnian Serb forces kill 11 Bosnian Croats captured in Šamac.[13] |
Kukavice massacre | 27 August 1992 | Kukavice, near Rogatica | 21 | Bosniak forces kill 21 Bosnian Serbs.[14] |
Serdari massacre | 17 September 1992 | Kotor Varoš | 16 | 16 Serb civilians killed in the village of Serdari by ArBiH members [15] |
Sjeverin massacre | 22 October 1992 | Višegrad | 16 | 16 Bosniak citizens of Serbia from the village of Sjeverin abducted from a Serbian bus in the village of Mioče, on Bosnian territory. The abductees were taken to the Vilina Vlas hotel in Višegrad where they were tortured before being taken to the Drina River and executed. |
Bugojno ethnic cleansing | 1993–1994 | Bugojno | 200 | Joint criminal enterprise of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) and its political leadership in Bugojno to ethnically cleanse the Croat population in Bugojno.[16] |
Kravica massacre (1993) | 7 January 1993 | Kravica | 49 | Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) attacked Kravica on Orthodox Christmas, killing as many as 49 Bosnian Serb civilians. 80 others were injured and property was destroyed on a large scale. |
Duša massacre | 15 January 1993 | Duša near Gornji Vakuf | 10 | Croatian Defence Council (HVO) artillery bombardment kills 10 Bosniak civilians.[17] |
Skelani massacre | 16 January 1993 | Skelani near Srebrenica | 69 | Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) attacks village Skelani leaving 68 dead Serb civilians.[18] |
Štrpci massacre | 27 February 1993 | Priboj | 19 | Massacre of 19 non-Serbs (18 Bosniaks, one Croat) taken from a Belgrade-Bar train at Štrpci station near Višegrad, on Bosnian territory. |
Srebrenica shelling | 12 April 1993 | Srebrenica | 56 | VRS shells Srebrenica, with 56 dead, including children, and 73 seriously wounded.[19] |
Trusina massacre | 16 April 1993 | Trusina | 22 | ARBiH kills 22 Bosnian Croats. |
Ahmići massacre | 16 April 1993 | Ahmići | 116 | Bosnian Croats kill 116 Bosniak civilians.[20] |
Sovići and Doljani massacres | 17 April 1993 | Doljani and Sovići | n/a | Bosnian Croat forces kill a number of Bosniaks in the villages of Doljani and Sovići.[21] |
Zenica massacre | 19 April 1993 | Zenica | 16 | Several grenades shot from HVO's positions located in Putićevo village killed 16 and injured over 50 civilians in the very center of the city. |
Miletići massacre | 24 April 1993 | Travnik | 5 | ARBiH kills 5 Croats.[citation needed] |
Bikoši massacre | 8 June 1993 | Bikoši, near Travnik | 31 | Bosnian mujahideen forces kill 31 Croats. |
Čukle massacre | 8 June 1993 | Čukle, near Travnik | 19 | ARBiH kills 19 Croats. |
Doljani massacre (July 1993) | 28 July 1993 | Doljani, near Jablanica | 39 | Bosnian mujahideen and members of the ARBiH (44th Brigade) forces kill 39 Bosnian Croats.[22] |
Mokronoge massacre | 10 August 1993 | Mokronoge, near Tomislavgrad | 9 | Bosnian Croats kill 9 Bosniaks in Mokronoge.[23][24] |
Grabovica massacre | 8 September 1993 | Grabovica | 13 | ARBiH kills 13 Bosnian Croat civilians.[25] |
Uzdol massacre | 14 September 1993 | Uzdol | 60 | ARBiH kills 60 Croats. |
Bobaši massacre | 18 September 1993 | Bobaši, near Vitez | 15 | Bosnian mujahideen kills 15 Croats. |
Stupni Do massacre | 23 October 1993 | Stupni Do | 37 | Croatian Defence Council (HVO) kills 37 Bosniak civilians.[26] |
Višegrad massacres | April–August 1992 | Višegrad | 1000–3000 | JNA and serb led paramilitaries killed an unverified amount of Bosniak civilians thought to be around 3000. Also the site of the Vilina Vlas rape camp. Currently the subject of attempts to cover up crimes committed during the war by the government of the Republika Srpska.[27] |
Križančevo selo massacre | 22 December 1993 | Vitez | 74 | ARBiH kills 74 Croats |
Buhine Kuće massacre | 9 January 1994 | Vitez | 26 | ARBiH kills 26 Croats |
Tuzla massacre | 25 May 1995 | Tuzla | 71 | VRS shell the Kapija neighbourhood, killing 71 and wounding 240 civilians. |
Srebrenica massacre | 11–22 July 1995 | Srebrenica | 8,373 | The Preliminary List of People Missing or Killed in Srebrenica compiled by the Bosnian Federal Commission of Missing Persons contains 8,373 names.[28] While the overwhelming majority of them were men, some 500 were under 18,[29] and victims include several dozen women and girls.[30][31]
As of July 2011, 6,598 victims have been identified through DNA analysis of body parts recovered from mass graves[32] and 5,138 victims have been buried at the Memorial Centre of Potočari.[33][34] |
Petrovac's road | August 7, 1995 | Bosanski Petrovac | 9 | Croat fighter-jets bomb Serb refugee column fleeing from Krajina.[35][36] |
Bravnice massacre | September 13, 1995 | Bravnice | 32 | Having captured the city of Jajce, Croatian soldiers massacred 32 Serb refugees, including women and children.[37] |
Oborci massacre | 13 September 1995 | Oborci, near Donji Vakuf | 28 | VRS forces massacre 24 Bosniaks and 4 Croats abducted from Mrkonjić Grad.[38][39] |
Mrkonjić Grad | October 1995 | Mrkonjić Grad | 181 | Having captured town, Croats and Bosniaks committed a number of crimes on the Serb population.[40][41][42] |
At least 48 civilians, most of whom were non-Serbs, had been killed by Serb paramilitaries during the Serb take-over of Bijeljina.
Kazani, a place that became notorious as a hidden repository for the bodies of several hundred murdered Sarajevo Serbs.
The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, in the Nikola Jorgic case, upheld the Judgement of the Düsseldorf Supreme Court, interpreting the intent to destroy the group "in part" as including the intention to destroy a group within a limited geographical area. In a Judgement against Novislav Djajic on 23 May 1997, the Bavarian Appeals Chamber similarly found that acts of genocide were committed in June 1992 though confined within the administrative district of Foca.
On 12 April, the situation in Srebrenica itself reached a new low, when two short intense artillery bombardments killed fifty- six people, including children, and seriously wounded seventy-three others