Ahmići (Serbian Cyrillic: Ахмићи) is a village in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the municipality of Vitez in the Lašva river valley.

Ahmići Ахмићи
Village
UN Peace keepers collecting bodies from Ahmići, Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 1993
Ahmići
Coordinates: 44°8′46″N 17°51′12″E
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Canton	Central Bosnia
Municipality	Vitez
Area
• Total	0.90 sq mi (2.33 km2)
Population  (2013)
• Total	506
• Density	560/sq mi (220/km2)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

In April 1993 during the Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing, the Croatian Defence Council forces attacked the village and massacred around 120 civilians in the Ahmići massacre. Since then many survivors have returned and have begun to rebuild their homes.

Population

Ethnic composition, census 1991

total: 466

• ethnic Muslims - 356 (76.39%)
• Croats - 87 (18.66%)
• Yugoslavs - 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.[1]

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.

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