Svilile

Svilile is a village in the municipality of Bratunac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is approximately 1.2 km northeast of Nova Kasaba.

Svilile
Village
CountryBosnia and Herzegovina
EntityRepublika Srpska
MunicipalityBratunac
Time zoneUTC+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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