 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.