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Ahatovići is a small village in the municipality of Ilidza Sarajevo. It is the site of a major war crime during the Bosnian War.
On June 2, 1992 the village was attacked after heavy shelling by the Bosnian Serb Army. Sixty-four Bosniak men and boys aged 15-75 were taken prisoner. They were held for days, tortured and on June 14, 1992 put on a bus after being told that they would be part of a prisoner exchange. The Serbs then fired on the bus with automatic weapons and threw grenades in. Fifty-six of the men were killed and eight survived by hiding under the bodies of their fellow prisoners[citation needed].
The atrocity was overlooked until 2001 when a Dutch TV channel made a documentary about the massacre. The program was entitled Good Husband, Dear Son and visited the village. Survivors of the massacre were interviewed about the war and their lives before and after.