Vitez massacre (1993)
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| Vitez massacre | |
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| Part of the Croat–Bosniak War | |
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| Location | 44°9.51′N 17°47.31′E / 44.15850°N 17.78850°E Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Date | 10 June 1993 09:45 (Central European Time) |
| Target | Croats |
Attack type | Mass killing |
| Deaths | 8[1] |
| Perpetrators | Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) |
The Vitez massacre was the killing of eight Bosnian Croat children by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) on 10 June 1993, during the Croat–Bosniak War.[2]
War broke out between Herzeg-Bosnia, supported by Croatia, and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, supported by the Bosnian Mujaheddin[3] and the Croatian Defence Forces. It lasted from 18 October 1992 to 23 February 1994,[4] and is considered often as a "war within a war" as it was a part of the much larger Bosnian War. Fighting soon spread to Central Bosnia and soon Herzegovina, where most of the fighting would take place in those regions.