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According to
the official results of the 1991 census, the Bosanski Brod district
had 33,962 residents:
13,923 Croats
(41%)
4,140 Moslems (12,2%)
11,464 Serbs (33,8%)
4,435 others (13,0%)
Since the Serbian
aggression (March 1992) many residential and farm buildings have
been destroyed. The first massacres of the civilians in Bosnia-Herzegovina
were recorded in the villages of the Bosanski Brod district. These
massacres were committed by the Serbian army as follows:
April 17th 1992
they brutally murdered twelve civilian villagers of Kolibe;
May 11th 1992
they murdered 15 civilian villagers of Donje Vrelo.
The Serbian
army occupied the entire district on October 6th 1992, and the surviving
non-Serb civilians (Croats and Moslems) were either evicted or detained
in one of many Serbian concentration camps.
The Croat and
Moslem sacral, cultural and historic heritage was destroyed.
028 B-H - KOLIBE
- BOSANSKI BROD - April 1992.
DESCRIPTION
OF REPORTED CRIME: Attack on civilian population, killings of civilians.
TIME AND LOCATION: Second half of April, 1992, village of Kolibe
(10 kkilometres south of Bosanski Brod).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: Mechanized divisions of the YPA and paramilitaries
known as the "White Eagles" (Beli Orlovi) entered the
village and 12 residents were killed: Mehmed Mujcin, Ejub Masic,
Mirko Saric (60 years old), Cita Saric (90 years old) and Riza Karic.
All of them were civilians.
PERPETRATORS:
Members of the YPA and paramilitary formations called the "White
Eagles". Among these were Aco Vidic and Stanko Patkovic.
EVIDENCE: Audio tape recording of an interview with a witness, supplemented
by a written statement currently kept in the archives of the Department,
no. 1D2BB07K001.
009 B-H - BOSANSKI
BROD - May 16, 1992
DESCRIPTION
OF REPORTED CRIME: Killing of civilians.
TIME AND LOCATION: May 11 to May 14, 1992; village of Donje Vrelo
(cca 14 kilometres southeast of Bosanski Brod).
SUMMARY OF REPORTED CRIME: From May 11 to May 14, 1992, an army
dressed in YPA uniforms, among whom was a group of Serb villagers
led by Goran Vukman, withdrew towards the village of Podnovlje.
For three days
they looted and set on fire civilian property in this village, and
killed Croat villagers. The extent of the crime became known only
after the soldiers of the Croatian Defence Council entered the village.
YPA soldiers and armed Serbs killed the following Croats: Marijan
Pavic (an elderly man); Andja Jurilj (born 1909); Anto Jurilj (born
1910, Andja's husband); Ante Jurilj (50 years old, Martin's son);
Ana Cosina; Jozo Katovic's mother (an elderly woman); Nikica Katovic;
Anto Katovic; Ivica Jerkovic; Ilija Rasic; Jozo Cerikan; Franjo
Matanovic; Ilija Blatancic; Niko Duspara; Ilija Duspara (all civilians).
They were buried on May 16, 1992, in the Catholic cemetery in the
village of Donje Vrelo.
PERPETRATORS: Soldiers dressed in YPA uniforms; armed Serb villagers
of Donje Vrelo: Goran Vukman (Slobodan's son), Djordje Sljuka (Zarko's
son), Vid Sljuka (Zarko's son), Goran Jakovljevic, Slobodan Jakovljevic,
Josip Vujic, Zoran Vujic, Zoran Celar.
EVIDENCE: A witness' written statement currently kept in the archives
of the Centre.
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