Agricultural cooperative in Kravica

ICTY

Serb forces launched an artillery attack on a column of people crossing an asphalt road in the area between Konjević-Polje and Nova Kasaba. During the attack, several dozen men from the column were killed and several dozen others were wounded. Only about a third of the men successfully crossed the asphalt road, and the column was broken into several parts. (para. 62. Krstić, p. 22.), (paras. 380-381. Popović et al., vol. I, pp. 148–149.), (para. 315. Tolimir, p. 151.), (para. 5162. Karadžić, vol. IV, pp. 2138-2139.), (para. 2651. Mladić, vol. III, p. 1389.)

The largest groups of Bosniak men from the column were captured on July 13, 1995. Several thousand of them were gathered in a meadow near Sandići, or nearby, and on the football field in Nova Kasaba, as well as in Konjević Polje. (para. 64. Krstić, p. 23.), (para. 383. Popović et al., vol. I, p. 150.), (para. 5166. Karadžić, vol. IV, pp. 2140-2141.), (para. 2653., 2710. Mladić, vol. III, pp. 1389, 1427-1428.)

Between 1,000 and 1,500 men from the Srebrenica area who had been been detained in the Sandići meadow on July 13, 1995 were taken by bus or on foot to a warehouse in Kravica, approximately one kilometre from the meadow. When the warehouse was full, Serb forces began throwing hand grenades into the warehouse and shooting directly at the people crammed inside. Guards stationed around the building shot prisoners who tried to escape through the windows. The following day, members of the Serb forces called out the wounded, shouting that the Red Cross had arrived and that they would be taken to hospital, and after the wounded responded, they shot them. Among those killed were minors and the elderly. (paras. 205-207. Krstić, pp. 86-87.), (paras. 296-299. Blagojević and Jokić, pp. 109–111.), (paras. 435-437., 443. Popović et al., vol. I, pp. 175-176, 178.), (paras. 353-355., 360., 362-363., 376. Tolimir, pp. 170-171, 173-174, 179.), (paras. 5224-5227., 5230., 5232., 5234-5235., 5283. Karadžić, vol. IV, pp. 2170–2176, 2198.), (para. 2707. Mladić, volume III, pp. 1424–1425.)

Material evidence of the crime was also found in the warehouse in Kravica. This included traces of human blood, bones, and tissue on the walls, floor and ceiling. There was evidence of the damage caused by weapons, bombs, and explosives as well as shell casings, dentures, and fragments of human bones found mixed with the rubbish in front of the warehouse. Pieces of hand grenades were also found around the warehouse. (para. 437. Popović et al., vol. I, pp. 175–176.), (para. 5251. Karadžić, vol. IV, pp. 2182–2183.), (para. 208. Krstić, p. 87.), (para. 363. Tolimir, p. 174.)

The bodies of those killed in Kravica were buried in Glogova and Ravnice in a location that was assessed as a primary grave. The bodies from Glogova were then transferred to secondary graves in Zeleni Jadar, Blječeva, Budak, and Zalazje. The remains of about 1,000 victims found in these graves belong to those killed in the Kravica warehouse. (paras. 209-210. Krstić, p. 87., Krstić), (paras. 306., 314. Blagojević and Jokić, p. 113, 117.), (paras. 438., 442., 443. Popović et al., vol. I, pp. 176–178.), (paras. 367-374., 376. Tolimir, pp. 176–179.), (paras. 5252-5276., 5283. Karadžić, vol. IV, pp. 2183-2195, 2198.), (para. 2707. Mladić, vol. III, p. 1424.)

Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Around 1,000 men who were part of the column and who surrendered on the Bratunac-Konjević-Polje road, including those who were gathered in the meadow in Sandići, were executed in the warehouse in Kravica in the afternoon and early evening hours of July 13, 1995. (Milorad Trbić, p. 122.), (Vaso Todorović, p. 2.), (Milenko Trifunović et al., pp. 47-48.), (para. 256. Radomir Vuković and Zoran Tomić Appeal Judgment, p. 84-85.), (paras. 60., 282. Željko Ivanović Appeal Judgment, pp. 22, 78.), (paras. 385-386. Božidar Kuvelja, p. 94.), (para. 613. Duško Jević et al., pp. 117-118.)

Bosniaks were imprisoned in the Kravica agricultural cooperative warehouse and executed by gunfire, machine gun fire, and bomb explosions, while members of the Army of Republika Srpska and the police stood guard to prevent the detainees from escaping. (Vaso Todorović, p. 2.), (Milenko Trifunović et al., pp. 10-11, 173-174.), (Petar Mitrović, pp. 1-2.), (paras. 328., 350-355, Radomir Vuković and Zoran Tomić Appeal Judgment, pp. 101, 105-106, 4-5.), (paras. 292., 318. Željko Ivanović Appeal Judgment, p. 80, 6.)

The executions of prisoners in the agricultural cooperative continued during the night of July 13 and into the early morning hours of July 14. These executions were carried out by the forces controlling the facility. (Milenko Trifunović and others, p. 51.), (Petar Mitrović, p. 25.), (Miladin Stevanović, p. 26.), (Zoran Kušić, p. 9.), (paras. 285-286. Božidar Kuvelja, pp. 72, 5-6.), (paras. 642., 723-724. Duško Jević and others, pp. 123, 137-138.)

Individual executions were carried out near the warehouse in Kravica on July 14. (Milivoje Ćirković, p. 2.), (Zoran Kušić, pp. 1-2, 12.)

It was established that the cleaning of the warehouse and the transport of bodies to the Glogova mass grave was organised in the morning hours of July 14 and continued the following day. (Milenko Trifunović et al., pp. 51-52, 65.), (Petar Mitrović, pp. 36-37.), (Miladin Stevanović, pp. 37-38.), (para. 89. Radomir Vuković and Zoran Tomić Appeals, p. 47.), (para. 328. Second-instance verdict Željko Ivanović, p. 90.), (para. 793. Duško Jević et al., p. 148.)