On 27 June 1992, the group of Milan Lukić forced about 70 Bosniak civilians, mostly women and children, into the house of Meho Aljić at Bikavac in Višegrad and set it on fire. According to the ICTY judgement, at least 60 people were killed, while according to Bosnian institutions the number was 72. Among them were little Ensar Tufekčić and his five-year-old sister Elma.
Account of an event · Hotel Vilina Vlas · April 1992 – October 1992
In 1992 the Vilina Vlas hotel in Višegradska banja near Višegrad was turned into a place where Bosniak women and girls were detained, systematically abused and raped, as established by the Court of BiH and the ICTY. The hotel also appears in other crimes committed against Bosniak civilians that year. After the war it reopened to guests, and to this day there is no marker on the building commemorating the victims.
Bakira Hasečić, a native of Višegrad, survived sexual violence in 1992 and lost seventeen members of her family in the war. As president of the Association "Žena – žrtva rata" (Woman – Victim of War), she gathers evidence against perpetrators and has testified before the Court of BiH and the Hague Tribunal. Her story also raises the question of the justice that survivors from Vilina Vlas have still not received.
In 1992, at the age of twelve, Amir Topčić of Vlasenica lost his mother Aiša, his father Abdurahman and his brothers Seid and Suljo. Years later, the Prosecutor's Office of BiH summoned him to testify in a case concerning crimes in Vlasenica, and in the summons asked him to bring his mother with him, who had been missing since 1992.
Meliha Merdžić, née Jašarević, was thirteen years old when her sixteen-year-old brother Muhamed and her father Asim were killed in 1992 in the village of Sase near Višegrad. After Lake Perućac was drained, eight of her brother's bones were found, and she buried them in Vlakovo. She is still searching for her father and eleven other relatives from Sase.
Jasmina Ahmetspahić, a young woman from Višegrad, was taken in 1992 from her parents' house to the Vilina Vlas hotel, which Serb forces had turned into a camp for women and girls. There she was subjected to sexual violence and died after jumping from a window of the hotel. Her remains were found only in 2010, at the bottom of the drained Lake Perućac.
According to family accounts, Hasan Tufekčić, a cabinetmaker and partisan from Višegrad, lost his first wife and ten children in 1942. After his death in 1984, Višegrad in 1992 took his second wife Haša and, according to media reports, three children from his second marriage. His daughter Hajra Korić was killed by Milan Lukić, whom the ICTY finally sentenced to life imprisonment.