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	Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina
		Zvornik is a city on the Drina river in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, located southwest of Tuzla and north of Srebrenica.
		Zvornik is one of the oldest cities in Bosnia, being first mentioned in the year 1410, although it was known as Zvonik ("bell tower") at that time.
		During the Ottoman occupation, Zvornik was the capital of the Zvornik sanjak (an administrative region), which was a result of the city's crucial role in the economy and the strategic location.
	creekin.net /c1502-n24-zvornik-bosnia-and-herzegovina.html (389 words)

	NATO/SFOR Informer: Two-way returns in Zvornik
		Zvornik - The town is located in Republika Srpska (RS), 75 kilometres northeast of Sarajevo, on the left bank of the Drina River.
		In Zvornik City, 191 Bosniac houses were destroyed and 209 are occupied by Bosnian-Serbs DPs coming from the northern half of the Federation: Kakanj, Banovici, Konjic or Travnik.
		During the meeting with the town councillor, Blatter stressed the importance of co-operation between the Zvornik municipality and the OMI.
	www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/129/p02a/t0102a.htm (723 words)

	Milosevic Trial: Belgrade "Role" in Bosnia Revealed
		B-24 recounted that a delegation of Serbs from Zvornik went to Belgrade and spoke to the head of a Serbian parliamentary body called the Committee for Serbs Outside Serbia, which was headed by Radmilo Bogdanovic, Milosevic’s former minister of the interior.
		B-24 said the attack on Zvornik was part of a larger plan to carve out a Serb republic in Bosnia, and that much of the operation was explained to him at a secret SDS meeting in Sarajevo in December 1991.
		Zvornik Serbs, he said, were instructed to create a Serb-only police force and local administration.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2003/Revealed.html (940 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The mosque in Divic near Zvornik was destroyed while the Imamand some other men from the dzemat were taken to the concentration camp in Karakaj.
		The mosque in Kula Grad, Zvornik, was destroyed, while the base and the graveyard were levelled to the ground by bulldozers.
		The mosque in Sapna near Zvornik was heavily damaged by grenades.
	odin.let.rug.nl /CB/bosnia/destroyed-1 (5606 words)

	TV Zvornik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zvornik lies on the eastern edge of northern Bosnia.
		Zvornik is a small city with the tallest building maybe 6 to 10 stories high.
		A monument to the WWII Freedom Fighters from Zvornik stood alone in the green expanse between the ruins of Kula Grad and Kula Castle.
	www.gordoncooper.com /travel/Europe/bosnia97/journal/zvornik.htm (7055 words)

	Zvornik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Attached you will find a case-study about the "Ethnic Cleansing" operations in the northeast-Bosnian city of Zvornik in 1992 established by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM) within the framework of a project on War Crimes and Human Rights Violations in BiH.
		In 1994 Cherif Bassiouni, head of the the Commission of experts established pursuant to Security Council Resolution 780 (1992), had encouraged BIM to prepare a report on the systematic of the "Ethnic Cleansing" operations in Zvornik.
		The attached report (Tretter/ Mller/ Schwanke/ Angeli/ Richter, "Ethnic Cleansing Operations" in the north-east Bosnian City of Zvornik form April through June 1992, 1994) is the English edition of the revised version.
	www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/zvornik/zvornik.html (174 words)

	TWO WITNESSES TESTIFY AT THE MILOSEVIC "TRIAL"
		The first witness to testify was "B-1775." This man was a mortician from Zvornik who had the unpleasant task of collecting the dead bodies, and bringing them back to the morgue to undergo examination by pathologists.
		This witness testified to the professionalism of Zvornik’s Serbian authorities.
		Because the witness was in Zvornik he was in a position to know what happened there, and in the area surrounding it.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/smorg052903.htm (854 words)

	"ICTY - Trial of Radislav Krstic" - Wednesday, 1 November 2000
		of the Zvornik Brigade responsibility, at the school in Orahovac, at the new school in Petkovci, at the school in Kula near Pilica, and presumably the school in Rostovici.
		examination, that as of the 14th, one or two companies of the Zvornik Brigade had to be dispatched for the purposes of reinforcement, for combat operations with the forces of the 2nd Corps of the BH army, and the 28th Division of the BH army as well.
		And Cerska is in the area of responsibility of Udric and the Zvornik Brigade.
	www.angelfire.com /theforce/des_ar/Nov012000.html (14652 words)

	MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: BORISLAV JOVIC PART I
		B-1524 was a resident of Zvornik, a reserve officer in the T.O., and a high official in the municipal government.
		He said that fl market arms dealers came into Zvornik and sold weapons to the population there regardless of their ethnicity.
		B-1524 said that 10,000 residents of Zvornik, primarily Muslims, fled the city as refugees and went to seek shelter in Serbia.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/smorg111803.htm (905 words)

	Bosnia Report - July - September 2000
		We were convinced at the time that the Bosniak leaders of Zvornik municipality had joined the resistance, only to be told later that they had left their base in good time and moved to the west.
		have entered Zvornik where they are now establishing law and order and ensuring security of all citizens.' We, however, had reliable information that Arkan’s men had already killed hundreds of people in Zvornik; but it was impossible to persuade the panicky mass of refugees or direct them in any way.
		The inhabitants of the Zvornik villages were killed in 1992 and those of Srebrenica in 1995.
	www.bosnia.org.uk /bosrep/report_format.cfm?articleid=992&reportid=160 (2310 words)

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		According to the interviewees, the Serb population of Zvornik received their weapons largely through the SDS or the JNA, while the Muslim population arranged for its weapons supply through "private" channels -- a fact which is also supported by the BIM study.
		The unit was stationed in the village of Celopek north of Zvornik, with a number of tanks located in the industrial district of Karakaj and proceeding towards the Zvornik city limits (to the precinct of Meterize) when the attack began.
		The attack on Zvornik was initiated by barrage fire from artillery and tank units of the former JNA that supported the seizure of the town by units of the Arkanovci.
	www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/zvornik/zvornikrep2b.html (12940 words)

	PHR Bosnia Projects: Press Release, 137 Bodies from Zvornik Mass Grave Recognized by Families
		During the last week, the local authorities publicly invited families with missing from the Zvornik area to help identify the bodies, arranged in rows of unzippered fl body bags, for viewing at the Tuzla Commemorative Center.
		She clenched her fists, hit her knees, and cried, convinced that the body which laid on the ground before her, was a member of her family.
		The victims are presumed to be Bosniaks (also referred to as Muslims) from the Zvornik region who disappeared in the first half of 1992.
	www.phrusa.org /research/bosnia/zvorpre.htm (830 words)

	Hundreds of remains found at Bosnia mass grave as exhumation starts
		Preliminary examination of the skeletons at the top of the grave there are at least five women and three children under 14, Hurtic said, adding that some of the skulls had bullet holes.
		Experts found some personal documents of the victims showing that they were Muslim civilians from Zvornik executed when Serb forces captured the town at the outbreak of 1992-95 war.
		The Zvornik site is a so-called "secondary" grave where Bosnian Serbs brought bodies from other sites in order to cover up their crimes.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/by/Qwarcrimes-bosnia-graves.Rqng_Da6.html (554 words)

	Bosnia-Hercegovina - General Information
		A new route from Valjevo via Zvornik (in Serbia) to Tuzla (in Bosnia-Hercegovina) was started before the break-up of Yugoslavia.
		Completion of the Zvornik to Tuzla section was interrupted by the war in 1991 but has since been largely finished.
		Work on the Valjevo to Zvornik section was stopped - some construction work can be seen at the Valjevo end - but there are plans of a restart using EU finance.
	www.steane.com /egtre/ba_info.htm (601 words)

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		Zvornik, situated on the River Drina, is one of the largest towns on Bosnia’s eastern border with Serbia.
		Today, Zvornik is deep in the heart of the eastern half of the present-day Republika Srpska, one of Bosnia’s two post-war entities.
		In the Zvornik area as in most other parts of the Republika Srpska, resistance to Muslim return after the war was initially quite strong.
	www.cemes.org /current/LGI/167-eng.htm (2878 words)

	Coalition For international Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the evening of July 13, he received a call from Lt. Drago Nikolic, Chief of Security for the Zvornik Brigade, advising him that a large number of prisoners would be brought from Bratunac to Zvornik and preparations should be made.
		From his testimony, it appears that Obrenovic did his utmost to ignore the crimes he knew were being perpetrated, while doing what was requested of him to facilitate their commission, and to focus instead on legitimate military actions.
		In his office on the 15th, Obrenovic discussed the plight of the Zvornik Brigade in the field with MUP (Ministry of the Interior) officers, Dragomir Vasic, Ljubisa Borovcanin and Milorad Stupar.
	www.cij.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=viewReport&reportID=421&tribunalID=1&languageID=1&print=true (2246 words)

	IFOR : AFSOUTH Transcript of Press Briefing - Aug 30, 1996
		The United Nations is outraged and disgusted by the events of yesterday in Zvornik, by the mob scene in front of a UN office and by the actions of those who, wearing police uniforms, should uphold the law and not break it.
		According to my sources it was made quite clear by the Bosnian Serb police officials in Zvornik that the safe and sound return of his officers from Mahala and the others in that area was the prime condition for lifting the siege, of lifting this hostage situation.
		It may be erspective was from the air and from the ground looking down and in and from our perspective it was the considered opinion of the ground commander who is well versed in dealing with the situations of a crisis nature decided that to put people in would simply enflame the situation.
	www.nato.int /ifor/trans/t960830a.htm (5377 words)

	JUSTWATCH-L archives -- June 2003 (#891)
		Unlike any other mass grave found since the war ended, the 274 bodies were wrapped in body bags belonging to the JNA, suggesting that the JNA was involved in the massacre of those civilians.
		A 55-year-old man from Zvornik, a survivor of the Zvornik killings who asked to remain anonymous, told local media he could not confirm that the JNA was involved in the massacre of civilians.
		Hague prosecutors are trying to prove that the JNA, then under the firm, if not formal, control of Milosevic, was involved in the Zvornik massacres, and experts believe that the evidence unearthed in Kazanbasca and Glumina will boost their case.
	listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0306&L=justwatch-l&D=1&O=D&F=&S=&P=106068 (818 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Nearly 500 bodies exhumed in Bosnia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Forensic scientists have exhumed the remains of almost 500 people, including children and women, from what is believed to be the biggest mass grave found in Bosnia.
		The 40m-long grave is in the mountainous countryside near the town of Zvornik, which remained in the Serb-controlled part of Bosnia, about 80km northeast of Sarajevo.
		Identity documents found in the mass grave show that at least some of the victims were Muslim civilians from Zvornik and the nearby towns of Vlasenica and Bratunac, executed when Bosnian Serb forces captured them at the start of the war.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/FBFEA053-8CCA-408F-8638-072E5494992F.htm (323 words)

	"ICTY - Trial of Radislav Krstic" - Friday, 30th June 2000
		Lieutenant Colonel Vinko Pandurevic, the Commander of the Zvornik Infantry Brigade; and Major Dragan Obrenovic, the Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Zvornik Infantry Brigade.
		The time, 9.10 in the morning, and an awareness piece where the duty officer of the brigade is informing General Zivanovic of the size of the column based on their information, and the threat that it's posing to them.
		Drago, within the context of the Zvornik Infantry Brigade, the people who clearly Jokic is indicating, Drago Nikolic, the Assistant Commander for Security of the Infantry Brigade or the Zvornik Infantry Brigade.
	www.angelfire.com /theforce/des_ar/Jun302000.html (16706 words)

	The diocese of Zvornik-tuzla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the middle of the 15th century, the era of the Brankovic rulers, the See of the Orthodox bishop for this Serbian territory was in Srebrenica.
		Under Turkish rule, as Zvornik gained in importance as the center of Sandzak, the Diocesan center was located in Zvornik, the territory stretching along both sides of the Drina River.
		Upon the restoration of the Patriarchate of Pec, the following Bishops of Zvornik are mentioned: Pavle (1561–1576); Georgije; Teodosije (1602); Gavrilo (1627); Konstantin (1629); Luka; Venijamin; Isaija; Ananija (1679); and Gerasim (who migrated with Patriarch Arsenije III to Hungary in 1690).
	spc.org.yu /Genocid/Zvornicko/zvornickoe.html (421 words)

	Background Information
		SFOR remains in place although troop levels were reduced to approximately 12,000 by the close of 2002.
		Their mission is to act as a buffer between Bosnian and Bosnian-Serbs who claim Zvornik as their ancestral home for centuries.
		Right a cross the border lies a very large battle harden Serb army itching for a fight for a claim of their ancestral home.
	www.venturegamespaintball.com /zvornikintroduction.htm (546 words)

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		Dragan Jokic was born on 20 August 1957 in the village of Grbavci in the Zvornik municipality.
		Dragan Obrenovic, the Chief of Staff of the Zvornik Brigade, testified that ‘unity of command’ is one of the basic principles of the army.
		Included in the Directive are orders to the Drina Corps to defend: “Zvornik and the corridor, while the rest of its forces in the wider Podrinje region shall exhaust the enemy, inflict the heaviest possible losses on him and force him to leave the Birac, Zepa and Gorade areas together with the Muslim population.
	www.un.org /icty/blagojevic/trialc/judgement/bla-050117e.htm (15248 words)

	Muslim American Society
		Since July 28 the experts have been at work unearthing a tennis-court sized 13-by-130 foot large and 10 foot deep block of human remains located in the mountainous countryside near the eastern town of Zvornik, close to the border with Serbia.
		The Zvornik site is a so-called "secondary" grave where Bosnian Serbs brought bodies from other sites.
		Serb forces moved remains from grave to grave in an attempt to hide bodies from war crime investigators, he said.
	www.masnet.org /aroundworld.asp?id=336 (1291 words)

	Coalition For international Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Municipal SDS leaders were given one of two versions of the plan depending on whether Serbs were in the majority or minority in their municipalities.
		In Mali Zvornik [in the Republic of Serbia, site where negotiations with Muslims were held] we tried for a solution for all of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
		Instead, war came to Zvornik, hundreds of Muslim men were massacred, while women, children and the elderly were rounded up and forced to flee to Muslim-dominated enclaves, at the same time that Serbs there (Tuzla and Zenica, e.g.) fled to Zvornik.
	www.cij.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=viewReport&reportID=322&tribunalID=1&languageID=1 (1003 words)

	AIM News
		Lieutenant Colonel Dragan Obrenovic, commander of the Zvornik Brigade of the Srpska Republic (RS) Army was arrested by four officials of the Hague Tribunal, on Sunday in Zvornik, Radio B92 reported, quoting police sources in Zvornik.
		During the war in Bosnia, Obrenovic was chief of the RS Army Zvornik Brigade, which had entered Srebrenica in July 1995, along with all the other units under the command of General Ratko Mladic.
		The former Zvornik Regiment commander was arrested yesterday in a nearby village having just eaten lunch at his father's house.
	www.aim.ac.yu /cgi-bin/news.pl?id=139 (1608 words)

	Annex IV : The policy of ethnic cleansing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Part III focuses upon one «ethnic cleansing» campaign in the Bosnian city of Zvornik and describes the military attack on and expulsion of the Muslim population of the city.
		Three persons interviewed told of a mass execution of male prisoners from Trnopolje who had been taken on a convoy towards Bosnian lines (apparently to be released); all of the approximately 250 men in the convoy were taken off, lined up and shot; 11 survived and eventually found their way to a Bosnian- Muslim zone.
		On arriving in Zvornik, Muslims were told that they must register their property.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /comexpert/ANX/IV.htm (15505 words)

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