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22 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Today marks 28 years since 16 Bosniak (Muslim) men and one woman were seized by paramilitaries from the Bosnian Serb ‘Avengers’ unit and killed at a hotel in Visegrad during the war in 1992.

balkaninsight.com/2020/10/22/bos…
The victims were travelling by bus from Sjeverin in Serbia, were abducted & taken to the Vilina Vlas hotel in Visegrad, where they were abused & killed by members of a Bosnian Serb paramilitary unit called the Avengers. Only one victim’s body has been found so far.
The Vilina Vlas now operates as a spa hotel and was promoted by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tourism authority as a holiday destination over the summer.
“The pictures were so distressing that they have never published them. She was raped, tortured, abused to the maximum extent. She was around 30 years old at the time,” Mevludin Hodzic, whose father and aunt were among the victims.
Back on the tourist trail: the hotel where women were raped and tortured

theguardian.com/world/2018/jan…
Bosnian Genocide.

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23 Oct
Today marks 27 years since 38 Bosniak (Muslim) civilians, including small children (aged 2, 3 and 9), elderly and disabled people, who were massacred by units of the Croatian Defence Council, the Bosnian Croat wartime force, in October 1993.
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On October 23, 1993, members of Apostoli & Maturice units of the Croatian Defence Council killed 38 people, burning some of them alive, & torched their homes. Among those killed by the Bosnian Croat fighters were children aged two, three & nine, & elderly & disabled people.
Victims’ families and other residents of the village of Stupni Do, near Vares in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, will gather on Friday to mark the 27th anniversary of the wartime killings.
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22 Oct
"Archbishop Serafeim invited the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to visit Athens in 1993. At a mass rally attended by prominent politicians, the indicted war criminal proclaimed: 'We have only God and the Greeks on our side.”

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theguardian.com/world/2003/jan…
Around 100 soldiers are believed to have joined the Greek Volunteer Guard, formed at Mladic's request. The unit, which fought alongside Russians and Ukrainians, was led by Serb officers and had its own insignia - the double-headed eagle of Byzantium.
Greece sent shipments of light arms & ammunition to the Bosnian Serb army between 1994-95. The report describes how Greek volunteers were implored, in intercepted army telephone conversations, to raise the Greek flag after the town fell.
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9 May
Amer Dulic spent 233 days in 4 Bosnian-Croat concentration camps. In 1993, he was only 17 years old when he & his cousins were taken from their homes to Kostana Bolnica (Bone Hospital). They were locked in a small room in the basement with about 20 other kids.
They heard screams & crying. It was clear that people were being beaten & tortured. First night there, he was forced to bury 2 cousins. For the first time in his life, he saw beaten and bloodied men, and listened to their final breaths.
"It was the first time I experienced someone with their eyes open trying to tell us something but they couldn’t. We saw ourselves in that position, we knew that soon that could be us".

His name was eventually called; he couldn’t feel his legs from the fear.
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