Donja Bočinja
Donja Bočinja (Serbian Cyrillic: Доња Бочиња) is a village in the municipality of Maglaj in Zenica-Doboj Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]
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  Donja Bočinja | |
| Coordinates: 44°30′32.58″N 18°11′02.37″E | |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Entity | Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Canton | Zenica-Doboj Canton |
| Municipality | Maglaj |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Population
Prior to the Bosnian War, the village had Serb majority, but after the war, its Serb population was expelled and the village was inhabited by the Wahhabists with the help from the Bosnian Muslim authorities.[2] Many of them married local women and earned citizenship. The village provided them a safe heaven in which they maintained their terrorist contacts under the guise of simple farmers. However, the hostility of the inhabitants of Donja Bočinja to outsiders, including SFOR, was palpable, undermining their claims of innocence. Eventually the enclave was closed down, and the village returned to its original owners.[3]
See also
References
Notes
- Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.
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R. Jeffrey Smith (2000-03-11). "A Bosnian Village's Terrorist Ties: Links to U.S. Bomb Plot Arouse Concern About Enclave of Islamic Guerrillas". Washington Post. Donja Bocinja. p. A01. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
The village's 600 residents include 60 to 100 former mujaheddin, Islamic guerrillas from the Middle East and elsewhere who came to help Bosnia's Muslims during the 1992-95 war.
- Lebl 2014, p. 21,26.
Books
- Lebl, Leslie S. (2014). Islamism and Security in Bosnia-Herzegovina (PDF). Strategic Studies Institute. pp. 21, 26. ISBN 978-1584876229.