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    The systematic killing of Visegrad's Bosniak political and economic leadership so that the community could not regenerate during the Serb aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. Safet Zejnilovic, Fejzo Šabanija, Zihnija Omerovic, Himzo Demir, Salko Suceska, Halil Ahmedspahic, Behija Zukic , Tufo Tankovic, Safet Efendija Karaman, Sadik Isic Beli. For more on the Visegrad Genocide: http://genocideinvisegrad.wordpress.com

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    The systematic killing of Visegrad's Bosniak political and economic leadership so that the community could not regenerate during the Serb aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. Safet Zejnilovic, Fejzo Šabanija, Zihnija Omerovic, Himzo Demir, Salko Suceska, Halil Ahmedspahic, Behija Zukic , Tufo Tankovic, Safet Efendija Karaman, Sadik Isic Beli. For more on the Visegrad Genocide: http://genocideinvisegrad.wordpress.com

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    The systematic killing of Visegrad's Bosniak political and economic leadership so that the community could not regenerate during the Serb aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. Safet Zejnilovic, Fejzo Šabanija, Zihnija Omerovic, Himzo Demir, Salko Suceska, Halil Ahmedspahic, Behija Zukic , Tufo Tankovic, Safet Efendija Karaman, Sadik Isic Beli. For more on the Visegrad Genocide: http://genocideinvisegrad.wordpress.com

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    The document discusses the systematic killing of Bosniak leadership known as 'eliticide' that was carried out in Visegrad during the Bosnian war.

    The strategy was to make the Bosniak people confused and headless by arresting, jailing or murdering educated Bosniaks, political and religious leaders to control and manipulate the population.

    They were expelled from work, arrested, jailed, called for 'informative talks', or kept under house arrest. After the Yugoslav People's Army left, they were taken away and murdered by VRS Special Units.

    Eliticide in Visegrad

    Yugoslav People's Army soldiers aiming anti-aircraft guns at Visegrad.


    April 1992.

    * Eliticide/Elitocide - the systematic killing of a community’s political and economic


    leadership so that the community could not regenerate.

    One of the priorities of the Yugoslav People’s Army(JNA)/Army of Republika Srpska(VRS)


    was to make the Bosniak people confused and headless. In this way they were able to control
    and manipulate with the Bosniak population. In order to do this, throughout Bosnia and
    Herzegovina, educated Bosniaks, political and religious leaders were arrested, jailed or
    murdered.

    This was the case in Visegrad. After the Yugoslav People’s Army occupied Visegrad, the Serb
    Crisis Committee (”krizni stab” led by fascist Serb Democratic Party) took control of the
    municipality. Leading Bosniak intellectuals, political leaders and activists, members of the
    Islamic Religious Community (Islamska Vjerska Zajednica), Police officers were expelled
    from work, arrested, jailed, called for “informative talks”, or kept under house arrest. Serb
    Police officials gave VRS Special Units lists of Bosniaks who possessed firearms, who then
    went individually man to man and asked them to turn in their firearms.
    (Yugoslav People's Army soldiers at the Mehmed-pasa Sokolovic Bridge which was later used
    as an excecution site by Bosnian Serb Army units.)

    After the Yugoslav People’s Army supposedly “left” Visegrad (like in the rest of B&H, the
    soldiers just replaced the emblems from JNA to VRS), Bosniak intellectuals, political,
    economic and religious leaders were taken away and murdered by VRS Special Units :“White
    Eagles”,various Chetnik groups, the “Avengers” and others, all of which were under the
    control of VRS. This is the same pattern used in other Bosnian towns.

    Here are some examples of eliticide in Visegrad:

    1. Safet Zejnilovic – Doctor, worked in the local hospital.

    2. Fejzo Šabanija – Secretary at Party of Democratic Action (Bosniak


    political party)
    3. Zihnija Omerovic – leading member of the Territorial Defense

    (Himzo Demir)

    4. Himzo Demir – Chemistry teacher, well- known Principal of Secondary School “Hamid
    Besirovic”.

    5. Salko Suceska – Engineer

    6. Halil Ahmedspahic – Engineer


    (Behija Zukic's gravesite in
    Visegrad)

    7. Behija Zukic – well-known owner of several businesses. Milan Lukic murdered Behija
    and her husband, stole her red Passat and drove it over the next couple of years.

    (Tufo Tankovic)

    8. Tufo Tankovic – Principal of “Hasan Veletovac” School. This school would soon become a
    concentration camp.
    (Safet Effendija Karaman)

    9. Safet Efendija Karaman – Imam (Muslim religious priest) at a mosque in Visegrad.

    (Sadik Isic Beli)

    10. Sadik Isic Beli – Mechanical engineer, worked in “Terpentina” factory.

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