Vranica case
The Vranica Case was the massacre of Army of RBiH POWs' in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, perpetrated by Croatian Defence Council (HVO), during Croat–Bosniak war, which was a part of larger Bosnian War.
It was committed on 10 May 1993 by HVO, during the Bosnian War, when HVO shot dead 13 Bosnian POWs' in Mostar.[1]
Two journalists/reporters from Zagreb-based national broadcasting company Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT), Dijana Čuljak and Smiljko Šagolj, made a TV report about captured men in which both of them claimed that men were actually arrested terrorists who victimized Croat civilians, while recording them on tape as they were standing line-upped at gun point in front of the building of former "Vranica" state company.[2]
These two controversial journalists are still blamed by the families of victims in Vranica Case, for inciting massacre of Bosnian POWs' after broadcasting a false report.[3]
The bodies of Bosnian POWs' were later found in Goranci Mass Grave.[4]
See also
External links
- "Vranica Case" on YouTube - TV reportage by Dijana Čuljak-Šelebaj for Croatian Radiotelevision
References
- ^ Dijana Čuljak-Šelebaj; Smiljko Šagolj (10 May 1993). "Vranica Case" (VIDEO). War report (in Croatian). YouTube. HRT Croatian Radiotelevision. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ Vranica case and Dijana Culjak role -
- ^ "Jutarnji List - Culjak prozvana zbog smrti vojnika Armije BiH". Archived from the original on 2010-08-27. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ ICTY (IT-04-74) Prlic et al. Case - Transcript: "The journalist was Dijana Culjak ... at the end of this footage they showed the people and their names and surnames who obviously knew where those young men were located. And among other things, I hope that this testimony of mine will contribute to us learning where the bones are at least ... The young men were shown as they were taking out the picture of Sefer Halilovic and the emblem which indicates the fact that they had been taken prisoner and that that was how it was staged, because there is very little likelihood that people would otherwise have stood before an execution squad, for example, in that way, or whatever you like to call the people standing in front of them." [1]
