[1] Members of the VRS killed a woman in the village, then transported 44 men and boys to the Ivan Polje landfill, where they shot them dead.

[5] Amor Mašović from the Institute for Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina found out that VRS colonel Aleksa Krsmanović ordered the killing of the entire male population of Novoseoci as revenge for his son Darko, a VRS soldier who died in the battle against the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) near Olovo.

The men and boys were then transported to the Ivan Polje landfill by two TAM-5000 (Dajc) military trucks,[7] and shot dead in two groups.

[10] On 8 September 2000, five years after the end of the war, an exhumation was performed on the Ivan Polje landfill, by the Bosnian Commission for Missing Persons.

A local Serb who wished to remain anonymous marked the location of a mass grave containing victims, which led to the discovery of the bodies.

[11] Additional eight remains at the site were found to be from Han Stjenica village, Rogatica, killed in one of subsequent massacres.

[9] The indictment was created by order of the Special Department for War Crimes and refers to suspects:[12] On 16 September 2020, on suspicion that they had committed a war crime, former SDS deputy Milan Tupajić, wartime commander of PS Sokolac Dragan Obradović, members of VRS Miladin Gašović, Jadranko Šuka, Željko Gašović, Momir Kezunović, and Branislav Kezunović were all arrested.