Svilile

Svilile

Свилиле
Svilile Свилиле
Village
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Republika Srpska
Municipality	Bratunac
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Svilile (Serbian Cyrillic: Свилиле) is a village in the municipality of Bratunac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is approximately 1.2 km northeast of Nova Kasaba.

History[]

During the Bosnian War of the 1990s, Svilile, along with all of the Drina Valley, was ethnically cleansed of its Bosnian Muslim population by the Serb-controlled Army of Republika Srpska.^[1] The methods of ethnic cleansing included rape, torture, mass murder and forced evacuations.^[2] Between 30 June and 2 July 1998, the State Commission on Missing Persons exhumed the remains of 26 Bosnian Muslims in Svilile.^[3]

References[]

^ "UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA: Srebrenica Investigation" (PDF). Stroga. 16 May 2000. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
^ "22 October 2014 transcripts of the trial of Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladić". ICTY transcripts. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
^ "Forensic Monitoring Project Report: Svilile Exhumations State Commission on Missing Persons". OSA ARCHIVUM. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

Coordinates: 44°13′N 19°07′E / 44.217°N 19.117°E / 44.217; 19.117

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[1] "UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA: Srebrenica Investigation" (PDF). Stroga. 16 May 2000. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

[2] "22 October 2014 transcripts of the trial of Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladić". ICTY transcripts. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

[3] "Forensic Monitoring Project Report: Svilile Exhumations State Commission on Missing Persons". OSA ARCHIVUM. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

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