Čemerno massacre

The Čemerno massacre refers to the massacre of the Serbs of the village of Čemerno, in the Ilijaš Municipality, near Sarajevo, on 10 June 1992, during the Bosnian War.

Some sources state that the attack was carried out by the members of the 304th Mountain Brigade of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Breza and were commanded by the war time mayor of the municipality Salko Opačin, the head of the police department Meho Kulić and others. The main reason for the massacre as stated by the Bosniaks was that the village of Čemerno was the place from where the town of Breza was shielded by artillery but at the same time it was a village inhabited by civilians.

Immediately after the incident, one of the survivors was recorded by British television. According to his testimony, the attack had been carried out by Croats, while another eyewitness later also mentioned the Bosniaks which was proved to be more accurate than the first report. Although later reports attributed it to Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina and "Muslim armed forces", the original indictment filed on 17 July 1992 mentions six individual Croatian persons. These indictments were also immediately published in Serbian media. The investigation was stalled and an attempt at their retrieval in 2005 by a media outlet was unsuccessful. By 2007, the County Prosecutor of Istočno Sarajevo claimed that the police had filed a full report in 2006, and that their investigation was being completed. Another news report mentions that a Muslim prisoner of war (captured later in the war) had confessed to participating in the killing and named several others.