Svilile

Svilile
Village
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity Republika Srpska
Municipality Bratunac
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

Svilile is a village in the municipality of Bratunac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is approximately 1.2 km northeast of Nova Kasaba.

History

During the Bosnian War of the 1990s, Svilile, along with all of the Drina Valley, was ethnically cleansed of its Bosnian Muslim population by the Serb-controlled Army of Republika Srpska.[1] The methods of ethnic cleansing included rape, torture, mass murder and forced evacuations.[2] Between 30 June and 2 July 1998, the State Commission on Missing Persons exhumed the remains of 26 Bosnian Muslims in Svilile.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA: Srebrenica Investigation" (PDF). Stroga. 16 May 2000. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "22 October 2014 transcripts of the trial of Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladić". ICTY transcripts. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Forensic Monitoring Project Report: Svilile Exhumations State Commission on Missing Persons". OSA ARCHIVUM. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

Coordinates: 44°13′N 19°07′E / 44.217°N 19.117°E / 44.217; 19.117

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