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According to
the official results of the 1991 census, the Modrica district had
35,413 residents:
9,660 Croats
(27,3%)
10,442 Moslems (29,5%)
12,563 Serbs (35,5%)
2,748 others (7,7%)
During the Serbian aggression against Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992),
the district area fell under the Serb attack (early May). All suburb
developments were shelled. Residential and farm buildings sustained
a considerable damage. All Croat and Moslem sacral institutions
were destroyed. The surviving civilians were either evicted or imprisoned
in one of the two camps (the male captives were detained in the
building of the former local secondary school, while the female
captives were detained in the "Bakulic" plant). Out of
thirty-six prisoners who were detained in the building of the secondary
school turned into a camp, only eleven survived, while the others
were killed in various ways.
By the end of
October, a handful of inadequately armed defenders were forced to
withdraw from the district area before the stronger and better equipped
Serbian forces.
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