TV Justice: Everything was Destroyed – Remembering the Day a Bosnian Village Burned
This month marks the 31st anniversary of one of the largest mass crimes
against civilians in the village of Stupni Do, near Vares. Former senior officials of [unrecognised wartime statelet] Herzeg-Bosnia and the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, were prosecuted in The Hague for the crime, but only three former HVO members were convicted in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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In an HVO attack on October 23, 1993, 38 people were killed in Stupni Do, and houses were set on fire along with the bodies of
some of the locals who were killed. Local residents in Stupni Do describe what happened on the day when the village was attacked and do not conceal their disappointment in the Bosnian judiciary. Despite the gravity of the crime and its impact, the families of the victims, the Bosniak residents of Stupni Do and Vares, and their Croat neighbours are an example of how a future can be built without neglecting the past.
