Ismet Đuherić

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Ismet Đuherić was the first commander of the Meša Selimović Company of the Army of the Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Army), whose members were mostly Bosniaks from the villages in the municipalities of Bosanski Brod and Derventa, but also Bosnian Serbs and Bonsnian Croats. It consisted of 120 men. This unit of "Muslim Chetniks", as some referred to it, was and until today remains one of the great controversies of the Bosnian War. Today Ismet Đuherić lives with his wife Hanumica in the village of Sijekovac near Bosanski Brod. He and his daughter are employees of the oil refinery in Brod. Discounting several months spent as refugees in the nearby villages of Dubočac and Kobas, the Đuherićs are the only Muslim family that has spent the whole war in the village of Sijekovac.