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The Korićani Cliffs massacre was the mass murder of more than 200 Bosniak and Croat men on 21 August 1992, during the Bosnian War, at the Korićani Cliffs (Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian: ''Korićanske stijene'') on Mount Vlašić in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. The victims, former detainees from the Bosnian Serb-run concentration camp at Trnopolje, were separated out from a larger group of civilians being taken to Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina-controlled territory in central Bosnia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tracking Down The Crimes At Koricani Near Knezevo In August 1992 )〕 The massacre was carried out by members of the special response team of the Public Security Center (CJB) of Prijedor,〔 a Bosnian Serb reserve police unit. The massacre was investigated and the names of the victims were reported in a series of articles published by the Bosnian Serb newspaper ''Nezavisne Novine''.〔 In 1999 the newspaper's editor Željko Kopanja, who had worked on the story, was maimed in a bombing attempt on his life. In trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina members of the group who carried out the killings, including their leader, Darko Mrđa, were convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.〔(Bosnian Serb jailed for massacre ), BBC News, 31 March 2004〕 In the final major trial at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 21 December 2010 Zoran Babić, Milorad Škrbić, Dušan Janković and Željko Stojnić, all employed at the Public Security Center in Prijedor during the war, were found guilty and between them sentenced to 86 years imprisonment for war crimes committed against more than 200 Bosniak and Croat civilians in the Korićani Cliffs massacre.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sudbih.gov.ba/?opcija=predmeti&id=210&jezik=e )〕 The suspected chief organizer of the massacre, Simo Drljača, the chief of police at Prijedor, was shot dead during an attempt to arrest him.〔(Human Rights Watch Applauds NATO Efforts to Apprehend War Criminals ), Human Rights Watch, 1997/07/10〕 The victims were among more than 3,500 non-Serbs killed during the ethnic cleansing campaign in the Prijedor area in 1992.〔 The unit behind the Korićani Cliffs massacre was alleged to have committed many other crimes in the area, including some against local Serbs.〔 After a systematic investigation of the site in 2009 most of the victims' remains have yet to be recovered.〔(Forensic experts unearth 60 Bosnian war victims ), Reuters, 26 Aug 2009〕 ==The massacre== On 21 August 1992, a large group of about 1,200 civilian detainees released from the Bosnian Serb-run Trnopolje camp were being transported to Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina-controlled territory in central Bosnia. After the convoy reached Mount Vlašić, about 200–250 men were selected and separated from the main group by a group of paramilitary policemen from Prijedor, the so-called "Intervention Squad", also known as "Mice" and "Red Berets",〔 and crammed onto two buses. According to the survivor Medo Sivac (18 years old at the time), when the rest of the convoy left for Travnik, "they took everything valuable from us, jewelry, money, watches."〔 The separated men were told they were going to be exchanged for prisoners held by the Bosnian government forces, but instead they were taken on a 15-minute journey to the edge of a ravine at Korićani Cliffs. When the buses arrived at the cliffs, the prisoners on the first bus were taken off and killed one-by-one by being shot while kneeling at the edge of the ravine. After about half the men had been taken off the bus, the rest were taken to be executed in groups of three. Before leaving, the police officers also fired down on the bodies and threw hand grenades at them. Sivac, who was on the second bus, reported how all the passengers from that bus were unloaded together and were then ordered to line up along the cliffs and kneel there: "Then the horrible shooting started. I was falling into the abyss. I didn’t loose consciousness, but suddenly I felt that the fall was over, because of the bushes attached to the cliff. I took refuge there, going as far as possible into the bush during the night. In the morning I stepped down somehow to find refuge in the nearby forest. I heard when some people came to burn the corpses."〔 Twelve of the victims survived the shootings and the fall into the ravine. Seven of them were found by members of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS), who filed a report on the "terrible crime against civilians," but the prisoners were not immediately released and some suffered further abuse while being treated for their wounds at the Hospital for Eye Diseases in Paprikovac. They were eventually handed over to the ICRC on 1 October. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Korićani Cliffs massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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