Konjević Polje, nana Fata village, Bratunac municipality - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Konjević Polje is a village in the municipality of Bratunac, in the Drina valley in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Number of inhabitants in 1991 - 998 (Bosniaks 975 - 97.7%)
Number of inhabitants in 2013 - 741 (Bosniaks 735 - 99.19%)
During the ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by the Bosnian Serb army in 1992, Konjević Polje became cut off from the main area of ​​territory controlled by the Bosnian government and was part of the Srebrenica enclave. The expulsion of Bosniaks from the area along the Drina River was the publicly proclaimed goal of Republika Srpska from the beginning of the war. Two of the "strategic goals or priorities of the Serbian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina" were "the establishment of state borders that separate the Serbian people from the other two ethnic communities" and "the establishment of a corridor in the valley of the Drina river, that is, the elimination of the Drina as a border that separates the Serbian states."
In his statement to the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia dated November 25, 2003, Bosnian Serb war criminal Miroslav Deronjić confirmed that goal and called it "liberation." He described the "liberation" of eastern Bosnia along the Drina corridor as a two-part plan devised in 1991 and 1992, in which Bosnian Serbs first seized power in municipalities in Podrinje and then forcibly expelled the Bosniak population. , especially the forced transfer of women and children and often the imprisonment and killing of men. In the so-called "Deronjić Declaration", he specifically referred to the "liberation of Konjević Polje" (paragraphs 154, 156).[1]
During the offensive of the Bosnian Serb army at the beginning of 1993, the villages of Konjević Polje and Cerska were occupied. Their Bosniak residents fled to Srebrenica and added to the city's already overcrowded refugee population. Refugees from Konjević Polje and Cerska were taking shelter in the Srebrenica elementary school when it was shelled on April 12, 1993.
After the fall of Srebrenica, the road between Bratunac and Konjević Polje was a key place where the forces of the Bosnian Serb Army attacked and broke up a column of refugees fleeing towards free territory. Many of the refugees were captured and killed in nearby locations. The school in Konjević Polje was used to hold detainees before execution.
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