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Operation Neretva '93 was a Bosnian Army operation against the Croatian Defence Council and Croatian Army in September 1993 and was launched in order to end the siege of the Bosniak part of Mostar surrounded by Croat forces and severely destroyed, and to recapture areas of Herzegovina, which were included in self-proclaimed Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. The operation was stopped by Bosnian authorities after it received the information about the incidents against civilians and POWs.
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Operation Neretva 93 was planned actions by the Bosniak's authorities where the goal was ethnic cleansing of all non Bosniaks from the area under the control of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Only in the village of Grabovica, between Jablanica and Mostar, 1993. were killed thirty-three Croatian civilians. Average victims age was 69 year old. The youngest victim was four years old and the oldest 87 years old.
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