Mušan Topalović

Mušan "Caco" Topalović (20 April 1957 – 26 October 1993) was a Bosnian gangster and warlord from Sarajevo, commander of the 10th Mountain Brigade in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Caco's brigade was infamous for rounding up Sarajevo's citizens and forcing them to dig defensive positions in his areas of responsibility.

[3] 29 bodies from the Kazani pit were exhumed by investigators after a few days of digging, but the work was abruptly halted by the Interior Ministry and never resumed.

[3] Caco's paramilitaries also assaulted foreign journalists, stole from aid agencies, hijacked armoured personnel carriers from UNPROFOR, and monopolized the black market.

[5] Caco's excesses, brutal crimes against civilians and refusal to have the 10th Mountain Brigade fall under the Bosnian Army (ARBIH) chain of command had become a challenge to government authority, and had also become an embarrassment to Sarajevo's leaders who wished to maintain international sympathy and support.

In the attempt to arrest him, police officers Admir Hebib (1969–93), Kemal Kojić (1960–93), Dragan Miljanović (1967–93), Slaven Markešić (1965–93), Srđan Bosiljčić (1963–93), Elvir Šovšić (1974–93), Hamid Humić (1959–93), Jasmin Čamdžija (1968–93), Izet Karšić (1959–93) and eight civilian hostages were killed.

On 2 December 1996 he was given a war hero's burial which was broadcast on television and attended by approximately 12,000 people in Sarajevo, mostly members of the Green Berets and other quasi-formal military formations.

[6] He wrote to President Izetbegović: "I cannot understand, why, in the days when you are making superhuman efforts to preserve Bosnia as it is, you organize the funeral of those who inflicted the greatest harm.