Kravica

Kravica (Serbian Cyrillic: Кравица) is a village located in the municipality of Bratunac, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013 census, it has a population of 567 inhabitants.

This article is about the village. For the waterfall, see Kravica (waterfall). For the river, see Kravica (river).
Kravica
Кравица
Village
Kravica is located in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kravica
Kravica
Coordinates: 44°13′N 19°12′E
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina
EntityRepublika Srpska
MunicipalityBratunac
Area
[1]
 • Total2.43 km2 (0.94 sq mi)
Population
 (2013)[1]
 • Total567
 • Density230/km2 (600/sq mi)

During the 1992–95 Bosnian War, the village was badly damaged in the 1993 attack, and in 1995 was the place of major killings during the Srebrenica massacre.

History

In 1971 there was a shootout between men from Kravica and men from Konjević Polje.[2]

In 1991, it was reported that neighbouring Serb-inhabited Kravica and Bosniak-inhabited Glogova "had bad blood".[3]

Bosnian War

The village was attacked on 7 January (Serb Orthodox Christmas) 1993 by ARBiH forces under Naser Orić from the besieged Srebrenica enclave under the control of the ARBiH. 46 people died in the attack on the Serb side: 35 VRS soldiers and 11 civilians, and most of the houses were damaged.[4][5][6] Men from Kravica participated in the Srebrenica genocide committed against Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war.[7]

Demographics

In 1991, it had a population of 357, of whom 353 were declared as Serbs, with no declared Bosniaks, Croats or Yugoslavs. As of 2013 census, it has a population of 567 inhabitants, all Serbs.

References
  1. "Naseljena mesta 1991/2013 – Bratunac". statistika.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  2. Jan Angstrom; Isabelle Duyvesteyn (8 July 2005). Rethinking the Nature of War. Routledge. pp. 169–. ISBN 978-1-134-25750-8.
  3. JPRS Report: East Europe. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1991.
  4. "The Myth of Bratunac: A Blatant Numbers Game". Research and Documentation Center. Archived from the original on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  5. "Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to General Assembly resolution 53/35: The fall of Srebrenica" (PDF). United Nations. 15 November 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 22, 2008.
  6. "Prosecutor vs. Radislav Krstić: Judgement" (PDF). International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. 2 August 2001.
  7. Sarah Wagner (2 October 2008). To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica's Missing. University of California Press. pp. 275–. ISBN 978-0-520-94262-2.
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