Battle for Bosanski Brod

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The Battle for Bosanski Brod was fought from September 27 to October 7, 1992, between the Army of Republika Srpska and police units of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, on the one hand, and the Croatian Army, the Croatian Defense Council, and the Croatian Defence Forces, on the other, in the final part of Operation Corridor 92.
Prelude
The fighting in Posavina began on 3 March 1992, after the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) declared a Serb municipality in Bosanski Brod, trying to take control away from Bosniaks and Croats. Serbian Territorial Defense forces set up barricades in the town and tried to seize the strategically important bridge linking the town with Croatia, prompting the local Croats and Muslims to form a joint headquarters, and to request assistance from the Croatian Army, based just across the border in Slavonski Brod. According to a local report, 200 shells fell on Bosanski Brod on the first day of the Serb attack. Neither side managed to prevail, and the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) sent its 327th Motorized Brigade to the city.
In March of 1992, Croatian paramilitary forces entered Bosanski Brod and began committing crimes against Serb civilians. According to the testimony of General , Chief of Staff of the 1st Krajina Corps of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), 51 civilians were killed in the village of Sijekovac alone in the first month. Several concentration camps operated in the town, and it is estimated that around 2,000 Serb civilians passed through them.
On March 26 alone, between 11 and 58 serb civilians were killed in Sijekovac, of whom 18 were children. From the area of Brod and surrounding areas, 76 Serbian civilians were listed as killed, while many are listed as missing. In the village of , the village church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit from 1869 was demolished. Among those publicly implicated by the Serbian side are the 108th brigade of Croatian National Guard (by then renamed into the Croatian Army), the Intervention Squad of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
With the capture of Bosanski Brod, Operation Corridor 92 came to an end. Croatian sources mention that at the end of the battle, around 8,000 refugees crossed from Bosanski to Slavonski Brod, but since the fighting continued around the bridge on the Sava, which was then mined by Croatian forces, this number is likely to be exaggerated.

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