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Kupres

There are no valid data of the 1991 census for the Kupres district area.

The Serbian attack on the Kupres district and Kupres plateau was exceptionally well planned and organised. In summer of 1991, when YPA soldiers camped on the Kupres plateau, they secretly armed local Serbs, who in turn occupied the section of the district called Kupreska vrata (Kupres gate), in a blitz attack in April 1992. In this way one of the most important strategic points in Bosnia-Herzegovina was occupied.

The former YPA tanks were rejected by the defenders of Kupres for a while, who in this manner enabled to the majority of the district\'s population (Croats and Moslems) to find shelter in the neighbouring districts of Bugojno and Tomislavgrad.

April 10th 1992, soldiers of the two armoured corps of the former YPA - the Knin Corps and the Banjaluka Corps - took reprisals against all non-Serb residents and destroyed their property. A handful of Kupres defenders were crushed (they were either killed or captured and deported in the Knin camp), and only few of them managed to withdraw. The villages in the Kupres district (Rasticevo, Zloselo, and Osmanlije) were demolished and burnt down, and a number of their villagers were immediately killed, while few of them ended up in the Knin prison.

Many residential and farm buildings were either damaged or destroyed, as well as the entire Croat sacral, cultural and historic heritage.