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According to
the official results of the 1991 census, the Sanski Most district
had 60,119 residents:
4,267 Croats
(7,1%)
28,285 Moslems (47,2%)
25,372 Serbs (42,2%)
2,195 others (3,7%)
During the Serbian
aggression against Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992) the Sanski Most district
area was occupied (May 1992) by the Serbian forces and the former
YPA soldiers.
On May 28th
1992, the occupying forces attacked the village of Vrhpolje. This
attack was followed by further attacks on the Moslem civilian villagers
of Hrustovo, Pudin Han, Kijevci, Kijevo and Tomina.
The attacks
on Croat civilian residents started in June (the villages of Sasina,
Skrljevita, Ovanjska, Batkovci) and they culminated on July 24th
1992 when thirteen civilians were killed and massacred in the village
of Stara Rijeka.
On November
2nd 1992 the Serbian forces executed nine Croat civilians.
The surviving
non-Serb civilian residents were mostly evicted or imprisoned in
the camps Krings and Betonirka in Sanski Most, and in Manjaca.
Many residential
and farm buildings were either damaged or destroyed. The civilian
property of the evicted residents was looted, confiscated or destroyed,
as well as the entire Croat and Moslem sacral, cultural and historic
heritage.
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