Account of an event · May 6, 1992 – May 7, 1992
Massacre of sixteen prisoners in the warehouse in Crkvina near Bosanski Šamac
On the night of around 7 May 1992, in the agricultural cooperative building in Crkvina, in the municipality of Bosanski Šamac, sixteen captured Bosniak and Croat civilians were beaten and killed, while thirty-four other prisoners survived in immediate danger of death. According to the ICTY indictment, the massacre was led by Slobodan Miljković "Lugar", who died before trial. The heads of the State Security Service of Serbia, Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović, were finally convicted in 2023 of crimes in Bosanski Šamac as members of a joint criminal enterprise.