Korićani Cliffs massacre
1992 mass killing during the Bosnian War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Korićani Cliffs massacre was the mass murder of more than 200 Bosniak and Croat men on 21 August 1992, during the Bosnian War, at the Korićani Cliffs on Mount Vlašić in central Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Korićani Cliffs massacre | |
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Part of Bosnian War | |
Location | Mount Vlašić, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Coordinates | 44°17′00″N 17°40′00″E |
Date | 21 August 1992 (Central European Time) |
Target | Bosniaks, Croats and other non-Serb civilians |
Attack type | Mass killing |
Deaths | 200+ |
Perpetrators | Bosnian Serb police unit "Red Berets" |
The victims, former detainees from the Bosnian Serb-run concentration camp at Trnopolje, were separated out from a larger group of civilians being taken to Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina-controlled territory in central Bosnia. The massacre was carried out by members of the special response team of the Public Security Center (CJB) of Prijedor, a Bosnian Serb reserve police unit.
The massacre was investigated and the names of the victims were reported in a series of articles published by the Bosnian Serb newspaper Nezavisne novine. In 1999 the newspaper's editor Željko Kopanja, who had worked on the story, was maimed in a bombing attempt on his life.
In trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina members of the group who carried out the killings, including their leader, Darko Mrđa, were convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. In the final major trial at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 21 December 2010 Zoran Babić, Milorad Škrbić, Dušan Janković and Željko Stojnić, all employed at the Public Security Center in Prijedor during the war, were found guilty and between them sentenced to decades in prison for war crimes committed against more than 200 Bosniak and Croat civilians in the Korićani Cliffs massacre. The suspected chief organizer of the massacre, Simo Drljača, the chief of police at Prijedor, was shot dead during an attempt to arrest him.
The victims were among more than 3,500 non-Serbs killed during the ethnic cleansing campaign in the Prijedor area in 1992. The unit behind the Korićani Cliffs massacre was alleged to have committed many other crimes in the area, including some against local Serbs. After a systematic investigation of the site in 2009 most of the victims remained yet to be recovered. In 2017, a new round of forensics and exhumation were performed. By 2019, 181 victims were identified. On July 21, 2019, a funeral ceremony took place and 86 victims were reburied in presence of their families.