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According to
the official results of the 1991 census, the Bosanski Samac district
had 32,835 residents:
14,670 Croats
(44,7%)
2,248 Moslems (6,8%)
13,619 Serbs (41,5%)
2,298 others (7,0%)
On April 16th
1992, the Serbian Army occupied some three-fourths of the district,
while the northeast section of the district (Grebnice, Domaljevac)
did not fall under occupation. The Serbian occupying authorities
evicted the most of the surviving Croats and Moslems from the occupied
section of the district, while some civilians were detained in the
camps formed by Serbs in the village of Milosevac and in Bosanski
Samac. Some captives were taken to Serbia. The Serbian Army fired
various projectiles (earth-to-earth rockets, mortar shells, etc.)
on the section of the district that was not under occupation, and
bombarded it from the former YPA planes (May 1992). On October 30th
1992, more than 300 mortar shells were fired on the free section
of the district. Since the beginning of the Serbian aggression on
the Bosanski Samac district, many residential and farm buildings
have been destroyed, as well as 90% of Croat and Moslem sacral,
cultural and historic heritage.
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