Paklenik massacre

Paklenik massacre
Paklenik massacre
	Rogatica Rogatica (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Location	Rogatica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates	43°47′55″N 19°00′13″E / 43.79861°N 19.00361°E
Date	15 June 1992 (Central European Time)
Target	Bosniaks
Attack type	Mass Killing
Deaths	48
Perpetrators	Republika Srpska Army

The Paklenik massacre is the massacre of 48 Bosniaks by the Army of the Republika Srpska in the Rogatica Municipality on 15 June 1992.

Background

A day earlier to the incident, the Serb Democratic Party-led Višegrad Municipality organized a deportation of Bosniak civilians to Olovo, a town near Sarajevo. However, on its way towards the Rogatica Municipality, Bosnian Serb Army members from Višegrad stopped the buses and took all the men off to another bus. They spent the night in Rogatica and the next day they were taken to Paklenik (Hell) to a ravine called Propast (Downfall) where they were systematically executed and their bodies were thrown into the ravine. Only one man survived the massacre. The men responsible for this massacre have not yet answered for their crimes. The only people who have been indicted were Mitar Vasiljević, Nenad Tanasković, Sredoje and Milan Lukić. One man, Predrag Milisavljević, was arrested in Višegrad in June 2012, suspected of having taken part in the massacre.^[2] The Bosniak civilians who were deported and who were massacred came from the following villages in Višegrad: Gornji and Donji Dubovik, Veletovo, Žagre, Smriječje, Zupa and Dobrun [bs; de; sr].^[3]^[4]

The remains of these executed Bosniaks were found in 2000.^[5]

References

^ Oppenheim, John; van der Wolf, William-Jan (1997). Global War Crimes Tribunal Collection: The Rwanda Tribunal. Global Law Association. p. 73. Following their expulsion from Visegrad, the killing of approximately 48 civilians at a place called Paklenik near the village of Kalimanici, Sokolac municipality.
^ "Court Orders Predrag Milisavljevic into Custody" Archived 2013-01-15 at archive.today, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, 22 June 2012
^ Ceco, Irham (15 June 1992). "Downfall, Colder Than Death". Dani.
^ McGrory, Daniel (28 August 2000). "Britain forgets Bosnia's nameless dead". The Times. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
^ "Tanaskovic: Witness tells of flight from Visegrad". Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. 16 February 2007. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2009.