Crimes in Grapska with Elements of Genocide
Like many other towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina that fell under the control of the Army of Republika Srpska in the spring of 1992, Doboj followed a familiar wartime scenario—one that began with a nearly identical prelude to the atrocities that would follow. May 1992 in Doboj is remembered as the month when military, paramilitary, and police units of the Serb forces entered the town and swiftly established control. What followed was a campaign of terror against Bosniaks and Croats, beginning with arrests, forced displacement, and the opening of concentration camps—and culminating in sexual violence, torture, and the execution of those who did not fit the ethnic vision of Karadžić’s regime.