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and Konjević Polje was a key place in which the Bosnian Serb Army forces attacked and broke the column of refugees fleeing towards government territory. Many of the refugees were captured and killed in nearby locations. The school in Konjević Polje was used to hold detainees before their execution.
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affirmed that goal and referred to it as "liberation". He described the "liberation" of the area of Eastern Bosnia along the Drina corridor as involving a two-part plan devised in 1991 and 1992, involving the Bosnian Serbs first taking power in the municipalities in the Podrinje and then expelling
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the Bosniak population by force, specifically by forcibly transferring the women and children and often detaining and killing the men. In the so-called "Deronjić Statement", he specifically referred to the "liberation of Konjević Polje" (paras. 154, 156).
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people in Bosnia and Herzegovina" were to "Establish state borders separating the Serb people from the other two ethnic communities" and "Establish a corridor in the Drina River valley, that is, eliminate the Drina as a border separating Serb states."
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were captured. Their Bosniak residents fled to Srebrenica and added to the town's already overcrowded refugee population. Refugees from Konjević Polje and Cerska were sheltering in the Srebrenica elementary school when it was
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in 1992, Konjević Polje became cut off from the main area of the Bosnian government-held territory and was part of the enclave of
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During the Bosnian Serb Army offensive of early 1993, the villages of Konjević Polje and
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from the start of the war. Two of the “strategic objectives or priorities of the
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In his 25 November 2003 statement to the Office of the Prosecutor at the
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International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
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Village in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Konjević Polje is located in Republika Srpska
Konjević Polje is located in Bosnia and Herzegovina
44°15′30″N 19°06′19″E / 44.25833°N 19.10528°E / 44.25833; 19.10528
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