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According to
the official results of the 1991 census, the Zepce district had
22,840 residents:
9,081 Croats
(39,8%)
10,780 Moslems (47,2%)
2,289 Serbs (10,0%)
690 others (3,0%)
During the Serbian
aggression against Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992), the district area
was shelled from the Serb long range arms. Residential and farm
buildings sustained a considerable damage.
The first serious
tensions between Moslems and Croats surfaced in late September 1993,
but were solved through diplomatic channels. On frequent occasions
the extreme B-H Army soldiers came from Zenica on "raids"
and intimidated, maltreated and looted Croats.
B-H Army soldiers
attacked the Zepce district area on June 24th 1993, during which
time scores of civilians were killed and several Croat populated
villages were burnt down.
August 16th
1993, forty-three Croat civilians were killed and massacred in the
village of Kiseljak.
The attacks
of B-H Army soldiers on the local Croat residents did not stop until
the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina Agreement was signed in May
1994 in Vienna.
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