Kravica

Kravica

Кравица
Kravica Кравица
Village
	Kravica
	Coordinates: 44°13′N 19°12′E / 44.217°N 19.200°E
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Republika Srpska
Municipality	Bratunac
Area
• Total	2.43 km2 (0.94 sq mi)
Population (2013)
• Total	567
• Density	230/km2 (600/sq mi)

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

During the 1992–95 Bosnian War, the village was badly damaged in the 1993 attack, and over 70 men and women were killed by the ARBIH, half of them being civilians.

History

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

In 1991, it was reported that the 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 the 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]^{[page needed]} 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 the 2013 census, it has a population of 567 inhabitants, all Serbs.

References

^ ^a ^b "Naseljena mesta 1991/2013 – Bratunac". statistika.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 1 January 2020.
^ Jan Angstrom; Isabelle Duyvesteyn (8 July 2005). Rethinking the Nature of War. Routledge. pp. 169–. ISBN 978-1-134-25750-8.
^ JPRS Report: East Europe. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1991.
^ "The Myth of Bratunac: A Blatant Numbers Game". Research and Documentation Center. Archived from the original on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
^ "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.
^ "Prosecutor vs. Radislav Krstić: Judgement" (PDF). International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. 2 August 2001.
^ 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.

[census2013-1] "Naseljena mesta 1991/2013 – Bratunac". statistika.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 1 January 2020.

[AngstromDuyvesteyn2005-2] 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.

[Myth_of_Bratunac-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.

[srebrenica-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.

[krs-tj-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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