Prijedor massacre

Prijedor Massacre
Location of Prijedor within Bosnia and Herzegovina
Location	Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date	30 April 1992–? 1992
Target	Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats
Attack type	Mass Killing
Deaths	3,000-4,000
Perpetrators	Bosnian Serb forces

During the Bosnian War, there was an ethnic cleansing campaign committed by the Bosnian Serb political and military leadership mostly against Bosniak civilians in the Prijedor region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the Srebrenica genocide, it is the second largest massacre committed during the Bosnian War. According to the Sarajevo-based Research and Documentation Center (IDC), around 5,200 Bosniaks and Croats from Prijedor are missing or were killed during the massacre period, and around 14,000 people in the wider region of Prijedor (Pounje). As of October 2013^[update], 96 mass graves have been located and around 2,100 victims have been identified, largely by DNA analysis. The crimes committed in Prijedor have been subjected to 13 trials before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Soldiers and police in the Serb SDS, Crisis Staff's, including Milomir Stakic, Milan Kovacevic, Radoslav Brdanin, ranging to the highest leaders including General Ratko Mladic, Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic have been charged with genocide, and persecution's, extermination's, murder, forced transfers, and unlawful confinement, torture as Crimes Against Humanity (widespread, systematic attacks against a civilian population) and other crimes, have been alleged to have occurred in Prijedor. The ICTY has characterized the Prijedor events of 1992 as having met the "actus reus" (guilty act) of genocide through killing members of the group and causing serious bodily and mental harm to members of the group. However, the requirement of the specific intent to physically destroy having failed to be established beyond reasonable doubt. However the events of 1992 in Prijedor were part of the larger Joint Criminal Enterprise to forcibly remove Bosnian Muslims and Croats from large territories of Bosnia. In 2014, investigators were led by two Bosnian Serb civilians who worked in and around the camps to a mass grave at the Tomasica mining complex, unearthing the largest mass grave in Bosnia, and the discovery of over 1,000 bodies in both the Tomasica and Jakarina Rose mass grave sites.