Paklenik massacre explained

Paklenik massacre
Location:Rogatica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates:43.7986°N 19.0036°W
Target:Bosniaks
Date:15 June 1992
Timezone:Central European Time
Type:Mass Killing
Fatalities:50
Perps:Republika Srpska Army

The Paklenik massacre is the massacre of at least 50 Bosniaks by the Army of the Republika Srpska in the Rogatica Municipality on 15 June 1992.

Background

A day earlier to the incident, the Serb Democratic Party-led Višegrad Municipality organized a deportation of Bosniak civilians to Olovo, a town near Sarajevo. However, on its way towards the Rogatica Municipality, Bosnian Serb Army members from Višegrad stopped the buses and took all the men off to another bus. They spent the night in Rogatica and the next day they were taken to Paklenik (Hell) to a ravine called Propast (Downfall) where they were systematically executed and their bodies were thrown into the ravine. Only one man survived the massacre. The men responsible for this massacre have not yet answered for their crimes. The only people who have been indicted were Mitar Vasiljević, Nenad Tanasković, Sredoje and Milan Lukić. One man, Predrag Milisavljević, was arrested in Višegrad in June 2012, suspected of having taken part in the massacre.[1] The Bosniak civilians who were deported and who were massacred came from the following villages in Višegrad: Gornji and Donji Dubovik, Veletovo, Žagre, Smriječje, Zupa and .[2] [3]

The remains of these executed Bosniaks were found in 2000.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.bim.ba/en/327/10/35368/ "Court Orders Predrag Milisavljevic into Custody"
  2. News: Ceco. Irham. Downfall, Colder Than Death. Dani. 15 June 1992.
  3. News: McGrory. Daniel. Britain forgets Bosnia's nameless dead. The Times. 28 August 2000. 14 May 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052014/http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/report_format.cfm?articleid=709&reportid=146. 4 March 2016. dead.
  4. News: Tanaskovic: Witness tells of flight from Visegrad. Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. 16 February 2007. 17 April 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110722062946/http://www.bim.ba/en/50/10/2314/. 22 July 2011. dead.