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The battle lasted almost a full 12 months. Kota was under the supervision of one party, then another. The last major Muslim-Bosniak attack on Pješčara was after the crime in Križančevo village and the departure of the White Road convoy on
Christmas Day 1993. In a fierce attempt to conquer the Hrašće
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Central Bosnia. After the fall of Travnik, this was the most important elevation in the Lašvan Valley. After the aggressor's successes, Pješčara was semi-encircled. On the eastern side is the valley of the river Bila and the village of Mehurić , where the Mujahideen detachment El-mujjahid, one of
507:. On that day, Hrašće fell into Bosniak-Muslim hands for the first time. On that day, the fiercest battle for Pješčara began, which lasted until June 13, 1993. The worst day was the penultimate day of the battle on June 12, 1993, when it changed hands several times and when 22 members of the
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Vitez Corps were killed and more than a hundred were wounded. The Muslim-Bosniak side hid its losses, but the numbers are in the hundreds. Due to its length, difficulty, intensity and strategic importance, the battle for Hrašće was nicknamed the
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the many in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, and the 7th Muslim Brigade of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina were located. In the hinterland in the monastery in Guča Gora were the 1st and 7th Krajina brigades under the command of Mehmed Alagić and Fikret Ćuskić.
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without strategic depth and fresh reserves. They were defeated by a small group of 300 brave
Croatian defenders, who, in order to preserve freshness, took turns at short intervals of only 48 hours. In the defense of the Pješčare hill, 69 members of the
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established a special unit for the purpose of conquering Pješčara. Its members were pre-war sports shooters from Zenica. In addition to the special units of the
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