Svilile
Village in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Svilile
Свилиле | |
|---|---|
Village | |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Entity | Republika Srpska |
| Municipality | Bratunac |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
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]
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