Battle of Prozor (1992)
| Battle of Prozor | |||||||
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| Part of the Croat–Bosniak War and Bosnian War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia | Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Stjepan Šiljeg Ilija Franjić Ivica Lučić Zrinko Tokić |
Sefer Halilović Muharem Sabić Fudo Hadzic Mustafa Hero | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| HVO | ARBiH | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 17 soldiers killed, 30 soldiers wounded | 43 soldiers killed, 76 soldiers wounded | ||||||
| 254 civilians killed (1992–1994) | |||||||
The Battle of Prozor is one of the first battles in the Croat–Bosniak war, the battle ended with the victory of the HVO. Just as UNPROFOR was dousing the last of the embers in Novi Travnik, a conflagration was about to begin in Prozor, some 40 km directly to the south. Prozor was an unassuming town of about 15,000 Croats and Muslims, far from the frontlines and noteworthy only because it had the fortune or misfortune to sit astride the main north-south highway in Bosnia, running from the sea at Ploče to Mostar and Jablanica, through Prozor to Gornji Vakuf, and on to Jajce and western Bosnia. Fighting began in Prozor on 23 October as a gangland dispute over which mafia organization would receive a delivery of black-market gasoline.