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According to
the official results of the 1991 census, the Doboj district had
102,546 residents:
13,283 Croats
(13,0%)
41,268 Moslems (40,2%)
40,020 Serbs (39,0%)
7,975 others (7,8%)
Members of the
irregular formation of the Serbian Democratic Party, backed up by
the former YPA, occupied the town of Doboj, the centre of the district,
on May 3rd 1992. Immediately after the occupation, they evicted
the surviving Croat and Moslem civilians. According to the same
scheme, the aggressor occupied the entire district area. The non-Serb
residents were imprisoned, evicted or killed. Many residential and
farm buildings were severely damaged. All Croat and Moslem sacral
institutions were destroyed.
Serb forces
carried out the massacres of civilians (mostly Moslems) in the villages
of Johovac (May 3rd, 4th and 5th1992) and Grapska (May 10th 1992).
These massacres were followed by yet another one, carried out against
Croat villagers of Dragalovac. After the massacre, 72 surviving
Croat civilians were taken to the notorious "Bare" concentration
camp where many of them were murdered. Several cases of the forcible
conversion of non-Serb population to the Serbian Orthodox creed
have been recorded.
In 1992 and
1993, Serbs opened several concentration camps in the Doboj district,
where they imprisoned Croat and Moslem civilians.
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