On 10 July 1992, Serb forces killed 258 Bosniak residents in Biljani near Ključ. The youngest among them was a baby girl, Amila Džaferagić, only a few months old, who according to Radio Free Europe was found in the embrace of her murdered mother. To date, only one person has been finally convicted for the massacre, and that was for unlawful deprivation of liberty, not for the killings.
Early in the morning of 10 July 1992, members of the 17th Light Infantry Brigade of the VRS and the police attacked the village of Biljani in the Ključ municipality and, in a single day, killed between 258 and 264 Bosniak civilians, according to different sources. The bodies were taken to mass graves, and the crime came to light only after the liberation of Ključ in September 1995. Only company commander Marko Samardžija has been finally convicted in connection with the massacre, and not for the killings but for the unlawful confinement of civilians.
Account of an event · Prhovo · May 30, 1992 – June 1, 1992
On 1 June 1992, Serb forces entered the undefended village of Prhovo in the municipality of Ključ, separated the men from the women and children, and killed some of them in the village and on the road towards the village of Peći. According to one source, 53 persons were killed; according to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than 40. The Court of BiH has issued final convictions of Marko Adamović and Boško Lukić for crimes against humanity in Ključ, which include Prhovo.
Account of an event · Manjača · May 30, 1992 – July 28, 1992
Omer Filipović, a history professor and the president of the MBO in Ključ, was arrested after the Serb authorities took power in Ključ at the end of May 1992 and was taken via the Stara Gradiška camp to the Manjača camp near Banja Luka. There he was killed in the summer of 1992 together with the detainee Esad Bender; according to his brother, this happened on 28 July 1992, and according to the report of a former security officer of the camp, at the end of August 1992.