Ratni zločin na Kazanima – presude
War crime at Kazani – verdicts

Author(s): Ljubinka Petrović-Ziemer
Contributor(s): Edvin Kanka Ćudić (Editor)
Subject(s): Criminal Law, International Law, Law and Transitional Justice, Military history, Studies in violence and power, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Udruženje za društvena istraživanja i komunikacije (UDIK)
Keywords: War crimes; The Kazani case; Kazani pit; 1992-1995; War in Bosnia in Herzegovina;
Summary/Abstract: The Kazani case has been known to the Sarajevo public since 1993, when the independent magazine Dani wrote about the murders of the non-Bosniak population near Sarajevo. The number of people killed at Kazani pit has never been officially determined, and twenty years later is the subject of frequent debates. The key date on the issue of this war crime is October 26, 1993, when the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBIH) organized the operation “Trebević”, with the aim of dealing with “criminals within their own ranks”, against the commander 10th Mountain Brigade Mušan Topalović Caco and the commander of the 9th Motorized Brigade Ramiz Delalić Ćelo. Topalović and his men killed nine MUP members during the arrest, and Topalović himself was dead a few hours after the arrest. The official version says: “killed while trying to escape”.

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