Members of the Avengers (Osvetnici) paramilitary unit, commanded by Milan Lukić, were responsible for the abductions and subsequent massacre.

At approximately 15:00 on 27 February 1993, a group of uniformed men entered the office of the Štrpci railway station and demanded that the oncoming train from Belgrade be stopped.

[3] The uniformed men were members of the "Avengers" (Osvetnici) unit of the White Eagles Bosnian-Serb militia, commanded by Milan Lukić.

The victims were trucked to the command of the First Battalion of the Second Podrinje Brigade of the VRS, in the Prelovo school building (Višegradska Banja).

Their bodies were dumped in the Drina river, never to be found, save for the remains of four victims, later dug up from Lake Perucac.

[4][5][3] A witness, Hadija Mujevic, was on the train and saw soldiers enter it at Štrpci and check the ID of male passengers.

I saw a man in a postal or maybe railway uniform staggering and soldiers hitting him with rifle butts and escorting him to the truck,” Mujevic said.

[5][9] In October 2022, seven former soldiers of the VRS Second Podrinje Brigade were found guilty of the massacre, in first instance, by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina after a high-profile seven-year trial.

Obrad and Novak Poluga, Petko Indjic, Radojica Ristic, Dragan Sekaric, Oliver Krsmanovic and Miodrag Mitrasinovic were condemned to 13 years each as co-perpetrators of the massacre.

[11][12] The commander of the VRS Second Podrinje Brigade from Visegrad, Luka Dragicevic, was acquitted of ordering the abduction and killing.

[4] The leader of the White Eagles Milan Lukic (already jailed for life by the ICTY) was also indicted in Bosnia Herzegovina for the Štrpci massacre in 2020.