Kravica attack (1993)

Kravica attack
Part of the Bosnian War
Kravica Kravica (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Location	Kravica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates	44°13′N 19°12′E / 44.217°N 19.200°E / 44.217; 19.200
Date	7 January 1993
Target	Bosnian Serb civilians and soldiers
Attack type	attack
Deaths	43–46 Serbs[1][2]
Victims	VRS troops and ethnic Serb civilians
Perpetrators	Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBIH)

The Kravica attack was an attack on the Bosnian Serb village of Kravica by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) from the Srebrenica enclave on Orthodox Christmas Day, 7 January 1993. The attack was organized to coincide with the Serbian Orthodox Christmas, leaving the Serbs unprepared for any attack. 43-46 people died in the attack on the Serb side: 30-35 soldiers and 11-13 civilians.^[1]

The event is still marked by controversy. Republika Srpska claimed that all the homes were systematically torched by Bosniak armed group, but this could not be independently verified during the trial of Naser Orić by the ICTY, where the judges concluded that many houses were already previously destroyed during the war.^[3] The civilian casualties in the village led to allegations by Serbia that Bosniak forces had carried out a massacre. Orić was acquitted of the charges relating to the killings, and later acquitted of all charges on appeal.^[4]

During the massacre of Serbs in Kravica, one of the members of Naser Orić's unit named Rizo, who participated in the massacre of Serbs, wrote a song about it called "Ko na božić u kravicu dođe" (Who comes to kravica on christmas"),insulting the Serbian victims.