An Attempt of Tajib Omerdic’s Assassination, the Chief of Police in Gracanica, by the Serbian extremists from Ozren, on 7th March, 1992. Cover Image

Pokušaj atentata srpskih ekstremista sa Ozrena na Tajiba Omerdića, načelnika Službe javne bezbjednosti u Gračanici, 7. 3. 1992.
An Attempt of Tajib Omerdic’s Assassination, the Chief of Police in Gracanica, by the Serbian extremists from Ozren, on 7th March, 1992.

Author(s): Omer Hamzić
Subject(s): Military history, Security and defense, Criminology, Studies in violence and power, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Izdavačka kuća »Monos« d.o.o
Keywords: Gracanica; Tajib Omerdic; the reserve police; terrorist attack; The Municipal Assembly;

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses about the terrorist actions of Serbian extremists around Gracanica in the spring of 1992, which intensify after the referendum for the independent and sovereign Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 28th February and 1st March 1992, as well as in other cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The focus of it was the terrorist attack carried out on 7th March, 1992 at a cafe bar in the city center and at the family house of the then Chief of the Public Security Gracanica, Tajib Omerdic, which had been previously marked as a target in certain document of the JNA. These actions, no matter of instilling the fear and uncertainty in the people, encouraged Bosnian patriots in the government to speed up the preparations for the defense by buying time, as shown in the example of Gracanica. In this case, at the proposal of the National Defense Council, the Municipal Assembly of Gracanica makes the decision to perform the mobilization of the reserve police on 8th March, 1992.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 43
  • Page Range: 81-86
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Bosnian