The Kazani pit killings were the mass murder of predominantly ethnic Serbs living inside besieged Sarajevo by the forces of Mušan Topalović, commander of the 10th Mountain Brigade in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War.

[8] Topalović, along with Jusuf Prazina, Ismet Bajramović and others, was one of the key criminals tasked with defending the city during the early stages of the war.

[9] He exercised absolute power over neighborhoods, press-ganged recruits, ran black market smuggling, kidnapped and ransomed rich people, organized rapes, allocated empty houses, and likely executed more than 400 Serb fighters and civilians.

[8] In one documented case, a family of six was gunned down by automatic weapons as they gathered to eat lunch, by assailants who were wearing uniforms of the Patriotic League.

[7][11] Jovan Divjak, an ethnic Serb general serving with the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH), said that local authorities had identified the killers within hours but police blocked the investigation – as in many other cases of anti-Serb violence.

[7] The Kazani pit was located on Mount Trebević, below the positions of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), approximately 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) north of the city center.

[16] On October 26, 1993, the Bosnian government launched a police action codenamed "Operation Trebević 2", with the aim of dealing with crime in their own ranks and returning renegade military groups to the system.

[17] Caco was ceremoniously buried at the Kovača Martyr's Cemetery during a funeral organized by the Green Berets in December 1996, which attracted a large crowd of some 10,000 people.

[15] "There were clearly more than 29 bodies in the pit," said Munir Alibabić, who at the time was the police chief of Sarajevo and was in charge of the investigation, "but I was ordered to stop all work.

[21] Victims estimates of Serb civilians killed in Bosnian government-held Sarajevo conducted by the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina officials say "at least 150".

On November 15, Benjamina Karić, Milan Dunović and High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt unveiled the monument.