In April 1993 , the Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing carried out by the Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia against Bosniaks was culminating . Ethnic cleansing was continued afterwards as well , but with difficulties as Bosnian Army started to retaliate to Croatian attacks . According to the conclusion in the verdict against general Tihomir Blaškić , there is no doubt whatsoever that the attacks carried out by the HVO in April and June 1993 were not justified by strictly military reasons but also targeted Muslim civilians and their possessions in order to make the Muslim civilian populations flee and to ensure that they did not return . In order to achieve this the HVO soldiers mainly acted as follows : they terrorised the civilians by intensive shelling , murders and violence ; they systematically torched and destroyed their private homes and places of worship usually after looting them ; they slaughtered the livestock and seized agricultural reserves ; and finally , they arrested and detained in camps , then finally exchanged or expelled Muslim civilians towards territories under the control of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina . Ethnic cleansing was very brutal in Kiseljak municipality under the command of Ivica Rajić . The ICTY Trial Chamber notes that the Kiseljak authorities created an official commission responsible for driving civilians out of the region . Finally , it points out that the municipality in which 10,000 Muslims lived before the hostilities had only 800 remaining after
Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing
Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing
Stupni Do massacre