page_title: Kravica attack (1993)
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Kravica attack (1993) / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: English: A serbian-orthodox cemetery in Bratunac for the civil victims of the war in Bosnia.
context_page_description: The Kravica attack was an attack on the Bosnian Serb village of Kravica by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Srebrenica enclave on Orthodox Christmas Day, 7 January 1993. During the Bosnian War, the Srebrenica enclave was besieged by the Serb forces who rarely allowed humanitarian aid to enter the area, creating hunger and lack of medicine among the Srebrenica inhabitants. It is alleged that the ARBiH attacked, among other objectives, in order to find food, but also to acquire weapons, ammunition and military equipment. The attack was organized to coincide with the Serbian Orthodox Christmas, leaving the Serbs unprepared for any attack.
  43-46 people died in the attack on the Serb side: 30-35 VRS soldiers and 11-13 civilians. There was one survivor, who happened to be in his water main hole. The event is still marked by controversy. Republika Srpska claimed that all the homes were systematically torched by Bosniak armed group, but this could not be independently verified during the trial of Naser Orić by the ICTY, where the judges concluded that many houses were already previously destroyed during the war.
context_section_description: Soon after the attack on Kravica, Serb forces launched a major offensive resulting in United Nations declaring Srebrenica a "safe area" where significant number of Bosnian government forces were hiding under command of Naser Orić.
  The controversy over the nature and number of the casualties came to a head in 2005, the 10th anniversary of the massacre. 
  According to Human Rights Watch, the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party "launched an aggressive campaign to prove that Bosniaks had committed crimes against thousands of Serbs in the area" which "was intended to diminish the significance of the July 1995 crime."
  In 2006, Orić appeared before the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Netherlands charged with a number of offences, including (in respect of Kravica) wanton destruction, and causing damage to civilian infrastructure, beyond the realm of military necessity. He was acquitted of this and a number of other charges in 2006 and acquitted of all charges by the Appeals Court in 2008.
  Some Serbs, including Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik, cite the Kravica attack as justification for Srebenica. "For Kravica, you got Srebrenica. We played by your rules", read a 2010 graffiti in Milići.
caption: A Serbian cemetery of the civil victims of the war.
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