The Bosnia and Herzegovina Prosecutor's Office has indicted five Serbs for the killing of more than 60 Croat civilians and one Bosniak in Brisevo near the northwestern city of Prijedor in the summer of 1992, which is the gravest individual crime committed against BiH Croats in the 1992-95 war.

The Prosecutor's Office has indicted senior commanders of the Republika Srpska Army and representatives of civil authorities and military formations, Veljko Brajic, Slobodan Taranjac, Ranko Kaurin, Branko Dzenopoljac and Drasko Topic.

They are charged with planning and participating, as part of a broad and systematic attack on non-Serbs, in an artillery and infantry attack on the undefended village of Briševo and neighbouring settlements near Prijedor, populated mostly by Croats.

In only a few hours in late July 1992, 61 civilians were killed, including a 16-year-old boy who was the youngest victims, while the oldest victim was 81. Among the victims was also an underage Bosniak.

Three persons from Briševo are listed as missing and their remains have not been found to date. During the attack, several women were raped, and several dozen persons, mostly men, were unlawfully taken to the infamous prison camps of Keraterm, Omarska and Trnopolje.

Several victims died on the way to the camps and at least three persons captured in Briševo were killed at Omarska.

During the attack religious and civilian buildings were destroyed. Around 350 surviving villagers were expelled. Today, a very small number of returnees live in Brisevo.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has sentenced local wartime Serb official Milomir Stakic to 40 years in prison for war crimes committed by Serb forces in the area of Prijedor, including Brisevo.