Kazani pit killings

Crimes in Kazani
The Kazani pit, located on the outskirts of Sarajevo. Used as an execution site and mass grave by Topalović and his forces.
Location	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date	April 1992 to October 1993
Target	Predominantly Bosnian Serb civilians
Attack type	Mass killing
Deaths	150[1]–200[2][3]
Perpetrators	Mušan Topalović, 10th Mountain Brigade of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kazani is the name for a pit located in the Stari Grad area of Sarajevo. From mid-1992 to the second half of 1993, mostly Serb civilians were killed in Kazani. The bodies were then thrown into the pit. These war crimes were committed by Mušan Topalović Caco and members of the 10th Mountain Brigade of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

References

1. Ljubas, Zdravko (1 August 2019). "Fate Unknown: The Long Search for Sarajevo's Missing Serbs". Balkan Insight. BIRN.
2. FBIS Daily Report: East Europe, Issues 74-84. The Service. 1996. Sljivo also admitted that, as the escort to Topalovic, commander of the brigade, he killed about 200 Serb civilians and raped several dozens of women.
3. International Human Rights Reports, Volume 7. Human Rights Law Centre, Department of Law, University of Nottingham. 2000. The Record also indicates that the applicant stated that (on unspecified dates) he had killed 200 citizens of Serb origin in the pit "Kazani" (near Boguscevac) and participated in the rapes of 40 Serb women.

Other websites

• BH Dani Archived 2018-08-31 at the Wayback Machine Kazani: posljednja priča