Večići

Večići
Village
Večići

Location in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Coordinates: 44°34′25″N 17°25′55″E / 44.57361°N 17.43194°E / 44.57361; 17.43194Coordinates: 44°34′25″N 17°25′55″E / 44.57361°N 17.43194°E / 44.57361; 17.43194
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity Republika Srpska
Region Banja Luka
Municipality Kotor Varoš

Večići is a village in the Kotor Varoš municipality of the Republika Srpska region in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It spread at Večićko polje (Večići's field), nearby the mouth of Cvrcka (in Vrbanja river).

Its population was reported to be 300 people in 2009, all of whom were Muslims. In 1992 there were 1,110. The narrower region is mainly populated by Serb people.[1][2]

During the Bosnian War, the village was a pocket of Bosniak resistance against the Bosnian Serb forces of Ratko Mladic.[3] It suffered severe damage at the hands of the Mladic forces, including destruction of the village mosque. In the aftermath of war, the American Refugee Committee organised construction of some new housing in the village and the government was attempting to encourage resettlement of the minority Muslim community in the area. The anthropologist Madelyn Iris noted that "No home had been left undamaged, and no extended family had been left entirely intact."[1] Some of the villagers had died in a massacre at nearby Grabovica in November 1992 and 150 men and boys were killed in the village itself in the same month.[2][4][5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Iris, Madelyn (2009). NAPA Bulletin, Passages: The Ethnographic Field School and First Fieldwork. John Wiley & Sons. p. 82. ISBN 9781444306965.
  2. 1 2 "Families remember dead from 1992 Grabovica village ahead of Mladic trial". ITNSource. Reuters. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
  3. ↑ Irwin, Rachel (10 July 2012). "Mladic Trial Witness Describes Escaping Mass Killing". Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
  4. ↑ "Prosecution: 'General Mladic had a hand in crimes'". Sense. 16 May 2012. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
  5. ↑ Fena, Agencija (2013): Obilježavanje 21. godišnjice stradanja Bošnjaka u Kotor-Varoši – Još se traži 277 osoba. Avaz, 3 November 2013.
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