Mass Graves of Victims of Genocide in the Territory of the Municipality of Vlasenica Cover Image

Masovne grobnice žrtava genocida na području općine Vlasenica
Mass Graves of Victims of Genocide in the Territory of the Municipality of Vlasenica

Author(s): Husejin Omerović
Subject(s): History
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: aggression; crimes; genocide mass graves; UN Human Rights Committee; ICTY; the army and the police of Republika Srpska

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a comprehensive description of mass graves in the territory of the municipality of Vlasenica, as well as the newly established municipality of Milici, which had been part of Vlasenica until the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina by Serbia and Montenegro. The paper covers a considerable number of relevant definitions of the notion of a mass grave. The main part of the paper deals with mass graves in the territory of these two municipalities, where bodies of Bosniaks from Vlasenica killed between 1992 and 1993 buried, as well as Bosniaks from all across the Drina Valley, buried in the territory of the two municipalities.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 52-53
  • Page Range: 234-246
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bosnian