hambarine was predominantly bosniak village in prijedor municipality. on 22 may 1992, serb controlled yugoslav people's army (jna) issued an ultimatum to the residents of hambarine. the residents were to surrender several individuals alleged involved in attack on jna. the ultimatum was not complied with and around noon the next day the shelling of hambarine began. the shelling came from three directions from the north-west in the karane area, from the area of urije and from the area of topic hill. there were two or three serb tanks and approximately a thousand soldiers during the attack. the bombardment of hambarine continued until about 15:00. the bosniak residents tried to defend the village, but they were forced to flee to other villages or to the kurevo woods to escape the shelling. there were approximately 400 refugees, mostly women, children and elderly people, who fled hambarine as a result of the attack that saw the serb soldiers kill, rape and torch houses. a military operation was consequently concentrated on the kurevo forest.