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'''Kravica''' ({{lang-sr-cyr|Кравица}}) is a village in [[Bratunac]], [[Republika Srpska]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]. As of 2013 census, it has a population of 567 inhabitants.

During the 1992–95 [[Bosnian War]], the village was badly damaged in the [[Kravica attack (1993)|1993 attack]], and over 70 men and women were killed by the [[Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|ARBIH]], half of them being civilians.

==History==
In 1971 there was a shootout between men from Kravica and men from [[Konjević Polje]].<ref name="AngstromDuyvesteyn2005">{{cite book|author1=Jan Angstrom|author2=Isabelle Duyvesteyn|title=Rethinking the Nature of War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkgqBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA169|date=8 July 2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-25750-8|pages=169–}}</ref>

In 1991, it was reported that the neighbouring Serb-inhabited Kravica and Bosniak-inhabited [[Glogova (Bratunac)|Glogova]] "had bad blood".<ref>{{cite book|title=JPRS Report: East Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9h8UAQAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Foreign Broadcast Information Service}}</ref>

===Bosnian War===
The village [[Kravica attack (1993)|was attacked]] on 7 January (Serb Orthodox Christmas) 1993 by the [[Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|ARBiH]] forces under [[Naser Orić]] from the besieged Srebrenica enclave under the control of the ARBiH. 46 people died in the attack on the Serb side: 35 [[Army of Republika Srpska|VRS]] soldiers and 11 civilians, and most of the houses were damaged.<ref name="Myth of Bratunac">{{cite web|url=http://www.idc.org.ba/project/the_myth_of_bratunac.html |title=The Myth of Bratunac: A Blatant Numbers Game |access-date=22 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508095038/http://www.idc.org.ba/project/the_myth_of_bratunac.html |archive-date=8 May 2009 |publisher=Research and Documentation Center}}</ref><ref name="srebrenica">{{cite web|title=Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to General Assembly resolution 53/35: The fall of Srebrenica |url=https://www.un.org/peace/srebrenica.pdf |publisher=United Nations |date=15 November 1999 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422014941/http://www.un.org/peace/srebrenica.pdf |archive-date=April 22, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="krs-tj">{{cite web|title=Prosecutor vs. Radislav Krstić: Judgement|url=http://www.icty.org/x/cases/krstic/tjug/en/krs-tj010802e.pdf|publisher=International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia|date=2 August 2001}}</ref>{{page needed|date=July 2016}} Men from Kravica participated in the [[Srebrenica massacre|Srebrenica genocide]] committed against [[Bosniaks|Bosniak]] civilians and [[Prisoner of war|prisoners of war]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sarah Wagner|title=To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica's Missing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GUBYGq7BZgYC&pg=PA275|date=2 October 2008|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-94262-2|pages=275–}}</ref>

==Demographics==
In 1991, it had a population of 357, of whom 353 were declared as [[Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Serbs]], with no declared [[Bosniaks]], [[Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Croats]] or [[Yugoslavs]]. As of the 2013 census, it has a population of 567 inhabitants 16 of whom are bosniaks rest are serbs

==References==
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[[Category:Cities and towns in Republika Srpska]]
[[Category:Populated places in Bratunac]]