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The Croat-Muslim War (1992): Prologue
Parent Category: Croats (in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia) Category: History of Croats in Bosnia and HerzegovinaThe Croat-Muslim War 1992: Prologue
In October, 1992, Jajce, an important town northwest of Travnik on the main road to Banja Luka, had been under siege by the Bosnian Serb Army (BSA) for nearly five months. A mixed garrison of Croatian Defense Council and Army of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina soldiers defended the town and its two important power stations. They were supported from Travnik over a tenuous, narrow, twenty-five-mile-long corridor through Serb-held territory. Reinforcements, food, ammunition, and other vital supplies were brought forward by truck, usually at night. Constantly under fire, the nightly convoys that snaked from Travnik along the primitive road through rough mountain terrain barely sufficed to keep Jajce's beleaguered ganison and civilian population alive. On October 27, 1992, the BSA's I Krajina Corps acted to end the siege of Jajce with an all-out attack preceded by several air strikes. The following day, Jajce's HVO defenders evacuated their sick and wounded along with the Croat civilian residents before abandoning the town that evening. The Muslim soldiers and civilians soon followed when, on October 29, the BSA entered the town and began a program of "ethnic cleansing" that resulted in what has been called "the largest and most wretched single exodus" of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Croat-Muslim war (1992-1994): Conclusion
Parent Category: Croats (in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia) Category: History of Croats in Bosnia and HerzegovinaThe Croat-Muslim war (1992-1994): Conclusion
Even as the situation in central Bosnia deteriorated in late January and early February, 1994, UNPROFOR and ECMM monitors began to receive an increased number of reports that the Croatian Army was intervening in the Muslim-Croat conflict in Herzegovina. Convoys and troop movements from Tomislavgrad toward Prozor and the Gornji Vakuf area were reported, and the ABiH claimed-incorrectly-that some ten thousand Croatian soldiers in seven or eight HV brigades were in the central Bosnia area. However, Croatian official Jadranko Prlic conceded only that a few former HV soldiers were there: some twenty-six hundred "volunteers" born in Bosnia- Herzegovina who had returned to defend "their country."
Basic references related to history of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Parent Category: Croats (in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia) Category: History of Croats in Bosnia and HerzegovinaBasic references related to history of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Stechak - tombstone monuments
Parent Category: Croats (in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia) Category: History of Croats in Bosnia and HerzegovinaStechak - tombstone monuments
Bosnia and Herzegovina is full of very interesting, mysterious tombstone monuments called stechak. The most famous collection is in Radimlja in Herzegovina:
