Ahmići

Ahmići Ахмићи
Village
UN Peace keepers collecting bodies from Ahmići, Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 1993
Ahmići
Coordinates: 44°8′46″N 17°51′12″E / 44.14611°N 17.85333°E / 44.14611; 17.85333Coordinates: 44°8′46″N 17°51′12″E / 44.14611°N 17.85333°E / 44.14611; 17.85333
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Municipality	Vitez
Population  (1991)
• Total	466
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Ahmići (Serbian Cyrillic: Ахмићи) is a village in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the municipality of Vitez in the Lašva river valley.

In April 1993 during the Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing, the Croatian Defence Council forces attacked the village and massacred around 120 civilians in the Ahmići massacre. Since then many survivors have returned and have begun to rebuild their homes.

Population[]

Ethnic composition, census 1991[]

total: 466

• ethnic Muslims - 356 (76.39%)
• Croats - 87 (18.66%)
• Yugoslavs - 2 (0.42%)
• others and unknown - 21 (4.50%)

These numbers are in dispute, see Wikipedia Ahmici massacre article for another pre-war (1991) analysis.

References[]

• Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.