Ahmići ( sr-cyrl, Ахмићи) is a village in central

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. It is located in the

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Vitez Vitez ( sr-cyrl, Витез) is a town and municipality located in the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the 2013 census, the town has a population of 6,329 inhab ...

in the Lašva river valley. In April 1993 during the

Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing The Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing, also known as the Lašva Valley case, refers to numerous war crimes committed during the Bosnian war by the Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia's political and military leadership on Bosniak or Bosnian Muslim c ...

, the

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forces attacked the village and massacred around 120 civilians in the

Ahmići massacre The Ahmići massacre was the mass murder of approximately 120 Bosnian Muslim civilians by members of the Croatian Defence Council in April 1993, during the Croat–Muslim War. The massacre was the culmination of the Lašva Valley ethnic clea ...

. Since then many survivors have returned and have begun to rebuild their homes.

Population

Ethnic composition, census 1991

total: 466 *

ethnic Muslims Muslims (Serbo-Croatian Latin and , Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic and ) are an ethnoreligious group of Serbo-Croatian-speaking Muslims, inhabiting mostly the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The term Muslims became wi ...

- 356 (76.39%) *

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- 87 (18.66%) *

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- 2 (0.42%) * others and unknown - 21 (4.50%) These numbers are in dispute, see the Ahmici massacre article for another pre-war (1991) analysis.

census 2013

According to the 2013 census, its population was 506.

References

* 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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmici Villages in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Populated places in Vitez