Bosanska Jagodina massacre | |
Location: | Crnčići, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Coordinates: | 43.8156°N 19.3578°W |
Target: | Bosniaks |
Type: | Mass killing and ethnic cleansing |
Fatalities: | 17 |
Perps: | Serbs (Yellow Wasps,[1] Army of the Republika Srpska) |
The Bosanska Jagodina Massacre refers to the execution of 17 Bosniak civilians from Višegrad on 26 May 1992, all of which were men.[2] [3] [4] This war crime was most probably carried out by paramilitary forces "Avengers" led by Milan Lukić, under the control of the Army of Republika Srpska.[5] In 2006 the remains of the murdered men were found in a mass grave in Crnčići near Bosanska Jagodina.[6] According to the Commission for missing persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina the following were executed that day : Bajro Murtić, Ismail Račić, Hidajet Račić, Mirsad Veletovac, Kemal Maluhić, Sead Šuško, Midhat Kasapović, Abdulah Veletovac, Ahmet Kadrić, Esad Tabaković, Bajro Beširević, Mehmed Džagadurov, Hamed Zukić, and one person with the surname Kasapović from the village Žagre near Višegrad.[7]