A poorly organized Arranging , local Bosniak Patriotic League paramilitary group had been established Creating in response Response to the Bosnian Serb proclamation .

Professor Michael Sells of the University of Chicago concluded Process_end that they were carried out Action to erase Emptying the cultural history of the Bosniak people of Bijeljina .

Republika Srpska claimed Statement that all the homes were systematically torched by Bosniak armed group , but this could not be independently verified Check during the trial of Naser Orić by the ICTY , where the judges concluded that many houses were already previously destroyed Destroying during the war .

The civilian casualties in the village led to Causation allegations by Serbia that Bosniak forces had carried out Action a massacre .

The Bosnian War Military_operation was characterised by bitter fighting , indiscriminate shelling of cities and towns , ethnic cleansing and systematic mass rape , mainly perpetrated Committing_crime by Serb , and to a lesser extent , Croat and Bosniak forces .

In addition , an estimated 12,000–20,000 women were raped Bodily_harm , most of them Bosniak .