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According to
the official results of the 1991 census, the Jablanica district
had 12,664 residents:
2,253 Croats
(17,8%)
9,136 Moslems (72,1%)
504 Serbs (4,0%)
671 others (6,1%)
During the Serbian aggression on Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992), there
were no armed conflicts in the district area, and for that reason
a large number of Moslem refugees (cca 25,000) from eastern Bosnia
(Foca, Gorazde) poured into this district, fleeing from the Serb
occupier.
In April 1993,
after petty provocations, B-H Army soldiers launched offensives
in the district area. They destroyed villages and either evicted
the surviving Croat residents or imprisoned them in the "Museum
of Revolution" in Jablanica, which was turned into a camp.
The property of Croat civilians was either looted or destroyed.
On July 28th
1993, B-H Army soldiers committed an atrocious massacre of 29 Croats
(mostly civilians) in the village of Doljani. The surviving Croats
were either evicted or imprisoned in the Jablanica camp "Museum
of Revolution".
B-H - VILLAGE
OF DOLJANI - DISTRICT OF JABLANICA - July 28,1993
DESCRIPTION
OF REPORTED CRIME: Mass killing of civilians.
TIME AND LOCATION: July 28, 1993; village Doljani, near Jablanica
(cca 10 kilometres west of Jablanica).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Men, women, children and elderly people
were brutally killed. Their eyes were gauged out, stomachs cut open,
and the bodies mutilated. Most of the skulls were shattered with
a blunt object, sexual organs cut, limbs chopped off and some bodies
were partly burned. Every body was mined - an explosive was tied
to the legs. A Reuters TV crew filmed the bodies of 18 victims,
but they could not get access to many others. Croats were killed
in a place called Sipciceva livada. The Croatian Defence Council
found the bodies of
38 Croats. Of those killed the following were identified: Ante Zaric,
Igor Lebo, Davor Maric, Andrija Stipanovic, Pava Stipanovic, Ruza
Colic, Martin Ripic, Anica Juric, Miljenko Gagro, Ivan Zovko, Drazen
Batkovic, Marinko Zelenika, Ivan Topic, Zeljko Miskic, Slavko Vrljic,
Andjelko Maric, Marinko Bozic, Ljubomir Bozic, Zeljko Bozic, Nejeljko
Soldo, Pero Soldo, Ivan Soldo, Mato Dogan, Zvonko Pinjusic, Slavko
Milicevic, Marinko Marusic, Ivica Tomic and Iva Pavlovic.
PERPETRATORS: A special division of the B-H Army. The commander
of the division is Becir Behram - the physical education instructor
at the elementary school in Jablanica. The massacres were committed
by Amir "Prpa" Stanic from the village of Jelicic, Hazim
Krnic and two brothers whose identity cannot be determined presently.
EVIDENCE: Medical
report and newspaper articles currently kept in the archives of
the Department.
B-H - DOLJANI
- JABLANICA DISTRICT - July 27-28, 1993
DESCRIPTION
OF REPORTED CRIME: Internment of civilians into a concentration
camp.
TIME AND LOCATION: July 27-28, 1993; Doljani, near Jablanica.
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Approximately 200 Croatian civilians
in the district of Jablanica were interned in the so-called "Memorial
Museum" in Jablanica. Prior to this, 500 Croatian civilians
were already interned here, so that in total there are over 700
Croatian civilians from the Jablanica district in the "Memorial
Museum". There is an UNPROFOR base in Jablanica.
PERPETRATORS: Armed members of the B-H Army.
EVIDENCE: Written statement given by a witness currently kept in
the archives of the Department.
B-H - DOLJANI
- JABLANICA DISTRICT - July 28-August 3, 1993
DESCRIPTION
OF REPORTED CRIME: Mass killing of civilians, deportation and internment
of civilians to camps.
TIME AND LOCATION: July 28-August 3, 1993, the village of Doljani
near Jablanica, and its hamlets (on the main humanitarian road connecting
central B-H with the Adriatic coast - the so-called "road of
salvation").
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: On July 28, 1993, B-H Army units attacked
the village of Doljani and its hamlets as a part of an organized
combat action, which had been preceeded by a number of attacks by
Muslim commando teams. According to the presently available evidence,
42 persons (35 civilians) were killed, while approximately 200 villagers
(all of them Croatian civilians) were deported from the village
and interned in camps. Most of the male civilians are held as military
prisoners in the military prison camps in Jablanica and Celebici
(near Konjic). A general list of deported and imprisoned persons
from Doljani and the surrounding hamlets, besides the already mentioned
200 hundred imprisoned, includes: 21 children under 5 years, 42
children between 5 and 15 years, 10 pregnant women, 39 other women
under 60 years, and 31 elderly individuals (older than 60 years).
No deported
or imprisoned civilians were registered with any international organizations,
and several attempts to deny the crimes were made by the B-H Army.
Furthermore, approximately 500 Croats have been held in Jablanica
for the last five months. The shortage of food reflects their difficult
position. In that respect, the fate of cca 200 newly arrived unregistered
persons from Doljani may be much worse. Unless these people are
registered soon, they may be moved to other camps and prisons, separated,
lost or killed. The eye-witnesses claim that some male civilian
prisoners are being used as living shields in combat areas or forced
to dig trenches in mine-fields in the immediate vicinity of the
fire lines.
PERPETRATORS: B-H Army units.
EVIDENCE: Written statements given by local eye-witnesses, persons
who escaped the mass execution, and a local priest are currently
kept in the archives of the Department. This data is substantiated
by extensive photo-documentation, and video-material taken by the
media and television crews who entered the village immediately after
the withdrawal of the Muslim forces.
This video material
was distributed worldwide.
NOTE: The official
reaction to the committed crimes were as follows:
i) In the August
10, 1993 issue of the Embassy Bulletin which refers to the statement
of the B-H Army Press Centre, the B-H Embassy in Zagreb denied that
any civilian prisoners were taken during combat activities in Doljani;
ii) In response
to the UNPROFOR's inquiry about civilian prisoners captured in Doljani,
the B-H Army representatives said that a considerable number of
villagers (all Croats) abandoned their homes "of their own
will", and escaped in the direction of Jablanica (Muslim held),
away from the combat zone;
iii) B-H Government
in Sarajevo made no comment.
I. GENOCIDE
001 B-H - JABLANICA
- September 9, 1993
DESCRIPTION
OF REPORTED CRIME: Mass killing of civilians.
TIME AND LOCATION:
September 9, 1993, the village of Grabovica (cca 15 kilometres south
of Jablanica).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED
CRIME: On September 9, 1993, in the early morning hours, B-H Army
soldiers committed the massacre of 32 Croatian villagers of Grabovica.
The village of Grabovica has been under B-H Army occupation since
May 10, 1993. In the time of the massacre, the village was outside
all war zones. On July 30, 1993, a Croatian villager Jozo Istuk
(Ante's son, born 1930) was killed by B-H Army soldiers.
On September
9, 1993, the following civilians were killed:
1. Josip Brekalo
(Ivan's son, born 1939);
2. Luca Brekalo (Josip's wife, born 1939);
3. Pero Culjak (Mijat's son, born 1913);
4. Matija Culjak (Pero's wife, born 1917);
5. Andrija Dreznjak (Tomo's son, born 1921);
6. Mara Dreznjak (Andrija's wife);
7. Dragica Dreznjak (Andrija's daughter, born 1953);
8. Zivko Dreznjak (Blaz's son, born 1933);
9. Ljuba Dreznjak (Zivko's wife, born 1932);
10. Cvitan Lovric (Tadija's son, born 1936);
11. Jela Lovric (Cvitan's wife, born 1940);
12. Ivan Mandic (Marko's son, born 1935);
13. Mara Mandic (late Tomo's widow, born 1921);
14. Pero Maric (Nikola's son, born 1914);
15. Dragica Maric (Pero's wife, born 1914);
16. Ilka Maric (late Simun's widow, born 1921);
17. Ruza Maric (Simun's daughter, born 1956);
18. Martin Maric (Blaz's son, born 1911);
19. Marinko Maric (Martin's son, born 1941);
20. Luca Maric (Marinko's wife, born 1944);
21. Marko Maric (Ante's son, born 1906);
22. Matija Maric (Marko's wife, born 1935);
23. Ruza Maric (Mijo's daughter, born 1935);
24. Ilka Miletic (Ilija's daughter, born 1926);
25. Anica Pranjic (late Ivan's widow, born 1914);
26. Frano Ravlic (Stjepan's son, born 1918);
27. Ivan Saric (Pero's son, born 1939);
28. Ivan Zadro (Andrija;s son, born 1924);
29. Matija Zadro (Ivan's wife);
30. Mladen Zadro (Ivan son, born 1956);
31. Ljubica Zadro (Mladen's wife, born 1956);
32. Mladenka Zadro (Mladen's daughter, born 1989).
PERPETRATORS: B-H Army soldiers stationed in Jablanica district.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
Data on the above mentioned massacre published in "Crkva na
kamenu" ("The Church Upon the Stone") Journal, no.
1/94, p. 6. Title: "Prolivena mucenicka krv u Grabovici"
("Martyrs' Blood Shed in Grabovica"). Document currently
kept in the archives of the Centre.
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