Koricani Cliffs massacre
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The Koricani Cliffs massacre was a mass murder of more than 200 Bosniak men by a Serbian reserve police unit from the town of Prijedor (western Bosnia and Herzegovina).
On August 21, 1992, a number of people were evacuated from the Trnopolje camp, and they were to be transported to Muslim controlled territory in central Bosnia. However, on Mt. Vlašić, some 200 men were separated after they were told they would be exchanged and they were then taken to a nearby cliff. There they became victims of a monstrous crime as they were all shot and thrown down a 200 meters high cliff by a group of reserve policemen from Prijedor. Seven men, however, survived the shooting and fall down the abyss.
Only one person, Darko Mrdja, has been convicted for this crime. Mrdja was the ringleader of the execution and survivors who asked him about the exchange remember him shouting back at them: "Today we are exchanging the dead for the dead!" Most likely Mrdja was ordered to commit this crime by the chief of police in Prijedor, Simo Drljaca, who was killed by NATO soldiers during his arrest attempt. Other executioners are still at large and show no signs of remorse. The Bosnian Muslim member of Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sulejman Tihic, expressed in his speech the necessity that all men who participated in this crime must be punished.
