Bugojno was spared from fighting and the two local brigades were still formally allied by June 1993, at the time of an ARBiH offensive in central Bosnia.

Several hundred HVO POWs and civilians were detained in various prison camps in the town, including the Iskra Stadium.

The Court charged the ARBiH authorities in Bugojno for participating in a joint criminal enterprise against Croat detainees, a qualification that was dropped on appeal.

[1] Bugojno was at the crossroads of two important routes linking the central part of the country with the region of Herzegovina and leading further to Croatia.

Most Serbs fled at the start of the Bosnian War, while a large number of Bosniak and Croat refugees moved in from other parts of the country.

[7] The VRS held the adjacent municipalities of Donji Vakuf and Kupres,[8] which was captured by the JNA in April.

[9] In October 1992, a series of incidents led to open fighting between the HVO and the ARBiH in Novi Travnik, east of Bugojno.

Local commanders tried to preserve the alliance by allowing the free movement of each other's troops, but relations continued to deteriorate.

[15] The HVO Eugen Kvaternik Brigade, established in May 1992, was based in Bugojno and was organized into three battalions, a military police company, and a small mixed artillery battery.

[24] Control of the Slavko Rodić weapons factory in Bugojno, damaged earlier in the war but still functional, was also of strategic importance.

The ethnic unrest culminated in two events: the torching of the Bosniak village of Vrbanja, resulting in many casualties, and the killing of two Croat policemen who were members of the joint patrol.

After several days of fierce street fighting, the ARBiH put under control most of the key facilities in the town, including the HVO Eugen Kvaternik Brigade's barracks.

The HVO military police company, surrounded in the Kalin hotel, was the last large pocket of resistance until it surrendered on 25 July.

[33] In 1993 and 1994, the Wartime Presidency of Bugojno, of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, established a prison camp for captured enemy combatants, at the football stadium "Luke", where 294 HVO war-prisoners were held for eight months, and mentally and physically abused.

[35] Bosniak civilians from the settlement of Vrbanja and other parts of the municipality were detained in the "Akvarijum" motel in Bugojno during the battle in July 1993.

[36] Several hundred HVO soldiers and Croat civilians, captured during the battle, were detained by the ARBiH in various detention facilities in Bugojno, where they were subjected to physical abuse.

[40] Croatian sources state that up to 200 Croats were killed by Bosniak forces in war crimes during and after the Battle of Bugojno, of which between 70 and 85 people were civilian victims.

[5] The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) filed several indictments on war crime charges committed during and after the battle.

In the trial against Amir Kubura and Enver Hadžihasanović, former Commander of the ARBiH 3rd Corps, the ICTY convicted Hadžihasanović in the first instance verdict in March 2006, inter alia, for failing to take adequate measures to prevent crimes against the detainees in Bugojno.

[45] The trial in the "Bugojno Three" case, concerning Nisvet Gasal, Musajb Kukavica and Senad Dautović, began in February 2008, and was retried in 2013.

[46] The Court ruled that Senad Dautović participated in a joint criminal enterprise against detainees of Croat ethnicity.