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  Šamac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Šamac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шамац), formerly Bosanski Šamac (Босански Шамац), is a town in the northern part of Republika Srpska, located on the right bank of the Sava river.
Bosanski Šamac is the birthplace of Alija Izetbegović (former leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Sulejman Tihić (Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina), and Zoran Đinđić (former prime minister of Serbia).
The census of 1991 recorded 6,267 residents in the town of Bosanski Šamac, of which there were 35% Bosniaks, 28% Serbs, 19% Yugoslavs, 13% Croats, and 5% others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bosanski_%C5%A0amac   (267 words)

  
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Plaintiff Kemal Mehinovic, age 42, was born in the municipality of Bosanski Samac, and is a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Plaintiff Safet Hadzialijagic, age 50, was born in the municipality of Bosanski Samac, and is a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Plaintiff Muhamed Bicic, age 42, was born in the municipality of Bosanski Samac, and is a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
www.cja.org /cases/Mehinovic_Docs/Mehinovic_Complaint.html   (6945 words)

  
 War Crimes > BOSANSKI SAMAC - HERCEG BOSNA :: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina ::
The Serbian occupying authorities evicted the most of the surviving Croats and Moslems from the occupied section of the district, while some civilians were detained in the camps formed by Serbs in the village of Milosevac and in Bosanski Samac.
The Serbian Army fired various projectiles (earth-to-earth rockets, mortar shells, etc.) on the section of the district that was not under occupation, and bombarded it from the former YPA planes (May 1992).
Since the beginning of the Serbian aggression on the Bosanski Samac district, many residential and farm buildings have been destroyed, as well as 90% of Croat and Moslem sacral, cultural and historic heritage.
www.hercegbosna.org /engleski/bsamac.html   (181 words)

  
 BOSNIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The lack of punishment of Serbian soldiers for their abuses in Bosanski Samac and other areas of Bosnia-Hercegovina implies complicity on the part of the civilian, military and police authorities of the self-proclaimed "Republika Srpska" as well as the military and civilian authorities in Serbia proper.
The initial attack on Bosanski Samac involved light and heavy artillery, which were used indiscriminately and disproportionately in order to terrorize the local population.
No resistance was given to Serbs in Bosanski Samac, and whoever had weapons gave it to them after the demands were heard on the radio and on the loud-speakers which were mounted on police cars...
hrw.org /reports/1994/bosnia   (7707 words)

  
 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The territory of the municipality of Bosanski Samac/Samac was larger before the war.
Samac town was populated predominantly by Bosniacs and surrounding villages by Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Serbs.
The SDS is the dominant party in the municipality of Bosanski Samac/Samac.
www.unhcr.ba /handbook/eng/cantons/bosanski_samac.htm   (337 words)

  
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In the days after the Serb seizure of Bosanski Samac, Mehinovic was required to report to the Bosanski Samac police station and was required to perform forced labor, digging trenches at the front line for the Serbian forces.
In the Bosanski Krajina region of northwest Bosnia, for example, the non-Serb population prior to the ethnic cleansing campaign was 536,000.
Prior to the Serb takeover of Bosanski Samac, the population of the town and surrounding area was 33,000, divided almost equally between Serb and non-Serb groups.
www.cja.org /cases/Mehinovic_Docs/Mehinovic_Judgment4.29.02.html   (14621 words)

  
 Bosanski Samac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bosanski &352;amac (in Serbian Cyrillic: &1041;&1086;&1089;&1072;&1085;&1089;&1082;&1080; &1064;&1072;&1084;&1072;&1094;) is a town in the northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located on the right bank of the Sava river.
Grada&269;ac and Modri&269;a are neighbouring towns; and &268;ardak and Kornica are neighbouring villages which fall under its jurisdiction.
Bosanski &352;amac is the birthplace of Alija Izetbegovi&263; (former leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Sulejman Tihi&263; (Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina), and Zoran &272;in&273;i&263; (former leader of Serbia).
bosanski-samac.mindbit.com   (165 words)

  
 dictionary - Ports and terminals - border
Gradiska, Bosanski Brod, Bosanski Samac, and Brcko (all inland waterway ports on the Sava), Orasje
Samac, and Brcko (all inland waterway ports on the Sava), Orasje
, Bosanski Samac, and Brcko (all inland waterway ports on the Sava), Orasje
www.exxun.com /entr/dy_ports_terminals_7.html   (585 words)

  
 COURTTV.COM- TRIALS
In July 1991 Lukac, a Bosnian Croat, was a senior security official in the town of Bosanski Samac, in northern Bosnia near the Croat border.
Lukac said he learned in December 1991 of the establishment of a Serb Parliament in Bosanski Samac, which constrasted sharply with his description of a delicately balanced power sharing among ethnic groups in the official Municipal Counsel and security forces.
Lukac was returned from Serbia on May 23, where he was held in and about the police station in Bosinski Samac until he was exchanged for Serbian prisoners on September 4, 1992, in a location on the Zagreb-Belgrade motorway under the supervision of ICRC and UNPROFOR.
www.courttv.com /archive/casefiles/warcrimes/reports/week2.html   (2791 words)

  
 Personal account of terror - Newsday.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- After a lengthy interview, a former prisoner at the Bosanski Samac detention camp handed Newsday reporter Roy Gutman a written statement describing torture he said he and other prisoners were subjected by their Serbian jailers.
I was one of 800 prisoners, held by the Serbian authorities of the so-called Serbian district of Bosanski Samac in their concentration camps.
I think the most horrible night was the one between the 7th and 8th of May, when a Serbian Special Force squad came to the Farmers' cooperative storerooms in Crkvini [three miles from Bosanski Samac and another of the five internment centers] and shot 15 of the 45 people there.
www.newsday.com /mynews/ny-gutmana080392,0,4794199.story   (1150 words)

  
 Milosevic Transcript 2003-12-02
The witness was the president of the SDA in Bosanski Samac at the start of the war.
This Crisis Staff had a section that dealt precisely with security and organisation of defence because, in the municipality of Bosanski Samac, Muslims accounted for only 7 per cent of the population, and we were concentrated in the town itself.
In paragraph 17, you see that about 20 days prior to the attack, the alleged attack on Bosanski Samac, in front of the coffee bar of Rifat Atic, members of the 4th Detachment, one Serb and two Muslims, shot in the air and that on that occasion two persons were wounded.
www.slobodan-milosevic.org /documents/trial/2003-12-02.html   (19738 words)

  
 bosanski samac :: TrustyHound Search Results
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Stevan Todorovic, former Chief of Police in Bosanski Samac, has been transferred from The Netherlands, to Spain to complete his ten year prison sentence.
The crimes committed in Bosanski Samac are indicative of a primary characteristic of the Bosnian war — the policy of "ethnic cleansing".
Stevan Todorovic became the Chief of Police of Bosanski Samac after the military take-over on April 17 1992.
www.unobserver.com /printen.php?id=10   (364 words)

  
 Samac Welcome To The Swedish American Museum Center In Chicago! Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The municipalities of Bosanski Samac and Odzak are located along the northern border of take-over of the Bosanski Samac municipality, Serb authorities established the "Serbian.
SAMAC Engineering Ltd. Provides the technical expertise to distill complex issues into clear and need thorough and reliable answers, SAMAC engineers are the ones to call.
Samac is not registered, or no information is available on it here yet, sorry [/home/lee/valinor/bot//nicks/samac: No such file or directory].
www.99hosted.com /names15218.html   (452 words)

  
 Islam Online- News Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The three men all held positions of power in the municipality of Bosanski Samac after the town was taken over by Bosnian Serbs in April 1992.
Tadic was convicted of persecution because he contributed to the deportation of Croats and Muslims from Bosanski Samac while Zaric was convicted because he beat and tortured non-Serb detainees and held them under inhumane conditions.
In the months that followed the seizure of Bosanski Samac Bosnian Muslims and Croats were driven out, in a "widespread and systematic attack on the civilian population" read the ruling.
www.islamonline.net /English/News/2003-10/17/article03.shtml   (609 words)

  
 Indictment Against Miljkovic,...
Because of its location at the northwestern edge of the "Posavina Corridor," control of Bosanski Samac was important to Serb efforts to create a Serb-controlled land bridge between Serbia and the Krajina Serbs in Croatia and western Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Blagoje SIMIC, born in 1960, is a medical physician from Kruskovo Polje, Bosanski Samac municipality who is the president of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) in Bosanski Samac and was Vice-Chairman of the town assembly from 1991 through 17 April 1992.
Miroslav TADIC, a/k/a Miro Brko, born in 1937, from Odzak municipality, formerly a teacher, ran the cafe "AS" in Bosanski Samac and served as Simo Zaric's deputy in connection with the Fourth Detachment.
www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/indictments/miljkovic.html   (2777 words)

  
 Bosnian Serb wanted for war crimes surrenders to U.N. Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Simic is the most senior official named in the so-called Bosanski Samac indictment, in which five men are accused of planning and waging a campaign of persecutions and ``ethnic cleansing'' of Bosnian Croats and Muslims and other non-Serb civilians in Samac in April 1992.
Simic, a physician, was the municipal leader of Bosanski Samac, a town overrun by Serb forces in April 1992.
Simic, who was vice president of the town assembly, declared himself head of the ``Serb Municipality Bosanski Samac'' a month before the Serbian army seized the town.
home.earthlink.net /~kspandle/main/criminals/articles/hg031201.htm   (886 words)

  
 International Law In Brief Dec. 16, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The events at issue occurred in the municipalities of Bosanski Samac and Odzak and elsewhere in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Trial Chamber found that the events which took place in the Municipalities of Bosanski Samac and Odzak between April 17, 1992 and December 31, 1993 constituted a widespread and systematic attack on the civilian population.
Detachment, Chief of National Security in Bosanski Samac from April 29, 192 to May 19, 1992, and Deputy to the President of the Civilian Council in Odzak.
www.asil.org /ilib/ilib0622.htm   (3274 words)

  
 MDO - NATO forces arrest suspected war criminal - 09/28/1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Stevan Todorovic was apprehended without incident in the northern Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac, about 44 miles northwest of here, a NATO statement said.
Todorovic, 41, has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, for "grave breaches, violations of the laws or customs of war and crime against humanity" allegedly committed in 1992 when he was police chief of Bosanski Samac.
Todorovic is the ninth indicted suspect to be picked up in Bosnia by NATO forces and the 26th suspect in custody out of 58 suspects indicted.
www.mndaily.com /daily/1998/09/28/world_nation/wn3.ap   (230 words)

  
 Your Search for "Bosanski"
Read about Bosanski in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
Prevođenje iz njemačkog na hrvatski, bosanski ili srbski i obrnuto.
Bosanski web portal sa vijestima, vruce diskusije, forum, chat, SMS, muzika, filmovi.
www.i-une.com /search?q=Bosanski   (72 words)

  
 TRIAL - Track Impunity Always : Profile
On or around 17 April 1992, he was named President of the “Municipal Assembly of Samac”, later renamed the “War Presidency of the Serbian Municipality of Bosanski Samac”.
Between 1st September and 31st December 1993, in collusion with other political figures, he planned and pushed forward a campaign of persecutions whose aim it was to get rid of the non- Serbian population living in the Municipalities of Bosanski Samac and Odzak.
Before 17 April 1992, the Municipality of Bosanski Samac was made up of close to 17’000 Muslims and Croatians living in Bosnia against an overall population of around 33’000.
trial-ch.org /en/trial-watch/profile/db/facts/blagoje_simic_225.html   (374 words)

  
 Indictments Against Karadzic and Mladic
Some local SDA leaders who were persecuted because of their political beliefs include, but are not limited to, Muhamed Cehajic (Prijedor), Sulejman Tihic (Bosanski Samac), and Ahmet Hadzic (Brcko).
The appropriation of property was extensive and not justified by military necessity.
It occurred from April 1992 to January 1993 in the municipalities of Prijedor, Vlasenica, and Bosanski Samac, among others.
www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/indictments/karadzic_mladic1.html   (2359 words)

  
 NATO forces arrest suspected war criminal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bosnia-Herzegovina - U.S.-led NATO troops arrested a former Bosnian Serb police chief indicted by the international criminal court for murder, rape and other crimes against humanity during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War.
Stevan Todorovic was apprehended without incident in the northern Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac, about 70 kms (44 miles) northwest of here, a NATO statement said.
Todorovic, 41, was indicted by the U.N. war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands, for "grave breaches, violations of the laws or customs of war and crimes against humanity" allegedly committed in 1992 when he was police chief of Bosanski Samac.
home.earthlink.net /~kspandle/main/criminals/articles/bos092798.htm   (113 words)

  
 Voice of America, 01-07-31   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
INTRO: A former police chief from the Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac has been sentenced to ten years in prison for persecuting Muslims and Croats in 1992 and 93.
It is found that the gravity of Steven Todorovic's criminal conduct was aggravated by his superior position and by the manner in which the crimes were committed.
Todorovic pleaded guilty to one count of persecution last December, admitting that he participated in the murder of one man, the beating and torture of several others and the sexual assault of six men at the police station in Bosanski Samac, which he headed.
www.hri.org /news/usa/voa/2001/01-07-31.voa.html   (905 words)

  
 Gray Wolves [Sivi Vukovi]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Miljkovic was accused before the Hague tribunal for crimes committed in Bosanski Samac in 1992.
Miljkovic was the deputy commander of the 2d Posavina brigade, a paramilitary unit from Serbia also known as Sivi Vukovi [the Gray Wolves] equipped by the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Terror and crimes in the region of Bosanski Samac were, according to the indictment, part of a wide and systematic campaign against the civilian population in that municipality, which, according to the 1991 census, had 33,000 inhabitants, of which 17,000 were Croats and Muslims.
fas.org /irp/world/para/sivi_vukovi.htm   (210 words)

  
 Annex VIII : Prison camps (part 3/10)
On 11 and 12 July 1993, Serbian forces occupied Derventa, forcing thousands of Croats to flee the region and seek refuge in Bosanski Brod and Croatia.
The women and children were allowed to flee to Travnik in south- central BiH.
The men were sent to a detention facility at the stadium in Bosanski Novi, also located in north-western BiH.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /comexpert/ANX/VIII-03.htm   (14257 words)

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