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Civil memorialization in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia

Građanska memorijalizacija u Bosni i Hercegovini i Republici Hrvatskoj

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Bosnian

Keywords: War Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina; War Monuments in Croatia; controversial monuments; 1992-1995; Srebrenica; Vukovar; Ahmići; Markale; Brčko; Bjelovar; Bileća; Višegrad; Prijedor;

Since its foundation, along with field visits of places of suffering, the Association for Social Research and Communication has been working on collecting data on monuments built in local communities, which are dedicated to the wars of the 1990s. Thus, in 2016, UDIK presented the Central Register of Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which contains data on more than 2,100 memorials, while in 2017 UDIK's team mapped over 1,200 memorials in the Republic of Croatia. This booklet provides a brief overview of developments on the issue of memorialization and the basic findings of UDIK's research on monuments in both countries.

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War crime in Biljani, Verdict: Marko Samardžija

Ratni zločin u Biljanima, Predmet: Marko Samardžija

Author(s): Lejla Čengić / Language(s): Bosnian

Keywords: War crime in Biljani; Marko Samardžija; the Serbian Army and their war crimes; mass grave sites; Bosniak victims;

The attack on the village of Biljani started in the early morning hours of July 10, 1992, and was led by the 17th Infantry Brigade of the Serbian Army in co-operation with the reserve and active police officers of the Police Department. In this village Serbian forces executed 264 men, women, children and elderly Bosniaks. The oldest victim was 85 years old Bećo Ćehić, while the youngest victim was a four months baby Amila Džaferagić, who died in a pit together with her mother. At the sites of the mass graves of Lanište I, Crvena Zemlja I and II, 220 bodies were exhumed. The killed Bosniaks from the hamlets of Donji Biljani, Brkići, Osmanovići, Domazeti, Džaferagići, Čehići, Mešani and Jabukovci were identified, and in the years that followed, bodies were found regularly in smaller and individual graves, in forests or abandoned and burnt buildings. In the area of Biljani, 34 graves were found, from which 34 bodies were exhumed. Marko Samardžija was found guilty of ordering, in his capacity as commander of the 3rd company of the Sanica battalion, a systematic attack on July 10, 1992 against Muslim civilians in the region of Ključ. On November 03, 2006, Samardžija was therefore sentenced to 26 years imprisonment. On May 25, 2007 the Appeals Chamber partially upheld the appeals of the indictee and his attorney, and rendered a decision revoking the first instance verdict. On October 23, 2008, Samardžija was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for crimes against humanity in Biljani village, Ključ municipality. This book includes a list of exhumed persons missing in the Biljani area. The data were obtained from the Institute for Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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War crime at Kazani – verdicts (2020)

Ratni zločin na Kazanima – presude (2020)

Author(s): Ljubinka Petrović-Ziemer / Language(s): Bosnian

Keywords: Kazani; war crimes; the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBIH); 1992-1995;

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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Publisher: Udruženje za društvena istraživanja i komunikacije (UDIK)

Civil memorialization in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia

Građanska memorijalizacija u Bosni i Hercegovini i Republici Hrvatskoj

War crime in Biljani, Verdict: Marko Samardžija

Ratni zločin u Biljanima, Predmet: Marko Samardžija

War crime at Kazani – verdicts (2020)

Ratni zločin na Kazanima – presude (2020)