Kravica Explained

Official Name:Kravica
Native Name:Кравица
Native Name Lang:sr
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pushpin Label Position:left
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Subdivision Type1:Entity
Subdivision Name1:Republika Srpska
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Bratunac
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:2.43
Population As Of:2013
Population Total:567
Population Density Km2:auto
Coordinates:44.2167°N 31°W

Kravica (Serbian: Кравица) is a village in Bratunac, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013 census, it has a population of 567 inhabitants.

During the 1992–95 Bosnian War, the village was badly damaged in the 1993 attack, and over 70 men and women were killed by the ARBIH, half of them being civilians.

History

In 1971 there was a shootout between men from Kravica and men from Konjević Polje.[2]

In 1991, it was reported that the neighbouring Serb-inhabited Kravica and Bosniak-inhabited Glogova "had bad blood".[3]

Bosnian War

The village was attacked on 7 January (Serb Orthodox Christmas) 1993 by the ARBiH forces under Naser Orić from the besieged Srebrenica enclave under the control of the ARBiH. 46 people died in the attack on the Serb side: 35 VRS soldiers and 11 civilians, and most of the houses were damaged.[4] [5] [6] Men from Kravica participated in the Srebrenica genocide committed against Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war.[7]

Demographics

In 1991, it had a population of 357, of whom 353 were declared as Serbs, with no declared Bosniaks, Croats or Yugoslavs. As of the 2013 census, it has a population of 567 inhabitants, all Serbs.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Naseljena mesta 1991/2013 – Bratunac . statistika.ba . 1 January 2020 . Bosnian.
  2. Book: Jan Angstrom. Isabelle Duyvesteyn. Rethinking the Nature of War. 8 July 2005. Routledge. 978-1-134-25750-8. 169–.
  3. Book: JPRS Report: East Europe. 1991. Foreign Broadcast Information Service.
  4. Web site: The Myth of Bratunac: A Blatant Numbers Game . 22 December 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090508095038/http://www.idc.org.ba/project/the_myth_of_bratunac.html . 8 May 2009 . Research and Documentation Center.
  5. Web site: Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to General Assembly resolution 53/35: The fall of Srebrenica . United Nations . 15 November 1999 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080422014941/http://www.un.org/peace/srebrenica.pdf . April 22, 2008 .
  6. Web site: Prosecutor vs. Radislav Krstić: Judgement. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. 2 August 2001.
  7. Book: Sarah Wagner. To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica's Missing. 2 October 2008. University of California Press. 978-0-520-94262-2. 275–.