Croatian policemen killed at Borovo Selo by Serb paramilitaries. Some of them were found to have been mutilated, their ears cut, their eyes gouged out and their throats slit.[1][2]
Kidnappings and summary executions of ethnic Serbs living in and near Vukovar during the summer of 1991 by Croatian forces under the command of Tomislav Merčep.[3][4]
Illegal detainment, torture and killings of at least 24 Serbian civilians from Sisak by members of the HV and police forces. Other reports claim that up to 107 Serbian civilians were murdered or disappeared during this time period[5]
Forces of the SAO Krajina, an unrecognized Croatian Serb region, killed 22 Croat civilians as well as captured policemen in Glina, Kozibrod and Struga, where the rebel Serb forces employed a human shield consisting of Croat civilians taken from their homes in Struga and the nearby village of Zamlača.
Rebel Serb forces killed seventeen Croat civilians in Struga and Kuljani, near Dvor. This is reportedly believed to be the first mass-killings of civilians during the Croatian War of Independence.[8]
SAO Krajina forces killed eight wounded Croat civilians and two police officers who were being treated at a medical centre during the capture of Dvor.[9]
JNA and rebel Serb mortar attack on a refugee camp near Grabovac killed three Croat civilians (including two children) and wounded five others.[26][27]
A civilian [clarification needed] refugee column, fleeing a JNA attack, was deliberately shelled by mortar fire between the villages of Antin and Korođ.[28]
Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) Around 450 Serbian soldiers attacked the village of Ravno during operations linked to the siege of Dubrovnik. Homes were destroyed, civilians were killed, and the village was largely razed.[29] A JNA lieutenant colonel later admitted the attack on Montenegrin state television.[30]
SAO Krajina forces massacred thirty-two Croat civilians in two separate incidents in October 1991, in the village of Novo Selo Glinsko, near Glina.[36]
Serb forces killed 70 Croats in the village of Lovas.[37] A total of around 90 Croats were killed in Lovas by Serb forces between October and November 1991.[38]
Serb rebel forces committed two massacres against Croat civilians in Lipovača. Seven civilians (all members of the Brozinčević family) were killed on 28 October 1991, while another five civilians were killed on 1 January 1992.[42]
Ethnic Serb family of three murdered by five Croatian militiamen; two family members survived. The murderers were apprehended, but released after a controversial court decision in 1992. The Croatian government agreed to compensate the surviving family members in a 2004 court settlement.[47]
On the same day the Kostrići massacre occurred, the same Serb paramilitary unit massacred another 38 Croat civilians in the nearby villages of Majur, Graboštani and Stubalj.[50]
Serb forces killed Croat civilians in Slunj and surrounding areas throughout the occupation. The majority were killed between November 1991 and the Spring of 1992.[51]
A mostly Croatian group of 263 men and 1 woman (including civilians and POWs), of whom 194 have been identified, were murdered by members of the Serb militias following the JNA withdrawal from Ovčara after it brought those patients there from the Vukovar hospital.[57][58]
On the same day of the Voćin massacre, the same White Eagles paramilitaries killed another 20 Croat civilians during their retreat through neighbouring villages south of Voćin.[11]
Voćin killings
13-16 December 1991
Voćin
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After the withdrawal of Serb forces from Voćin and arrival of the Croatian Army, dozens of Serbs are killed over several days.[65][66]
32 Croat civilians massacred by Croatian Serb militia and Territorial Defense. A further thirty-two civilians are declared missing and are presumed to have been killed by Serb forces later into the occupation.[71][72]
Indiscriminate air attack by the Army of Republika Srpska across areas of Slavonski Brod killed 16 Croat civilians (including 6 children) and wounded 60 others.[75]
Serbia's Red Berets special forces abducted and killed three men and two women. They were initially buried in Tikveš, before the bodies were moved to conceal the killings.[76][77]
8 Croatian Serbs and 1 Croat civilian massacred in the aftermath of Operation Storm. At the time of the massacre, both Croatian and Serbian forces were in the vicinity of Dvor, but neither side has admitted to the killings. According to Jorgen Kold, his U.N peacekeeping unit observed at least three Croatian soldiers with baseball caps and backpacks, near the camp on the morning of the massacre and "either they're covering it up, or someone doesn't want to remember". Kold defended his unit's failure to act by saying that they were instructed not to leave the camp or interfere.
↑ Ramet, Sabrina P. (2002). Balkan Babel: the disintegration of Yugoslavia from the death of Tito to the fall of Milosevic. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. p.64. ISBN978-0-8133-3987-0.
↑ Nation, R. Craig (2003). War in the Balkans, 1991-2003. Strategic Studies Institute. SSI. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute. p.105. ISBN978-1-58487-134-7.
↑ Marcikić, M; Kraus, Z; Dmitrović, B; Mosunjac, M; Marusić, A (3 September 1991). "Civilian Massacre near Podravska Slatina". Lijec Vjesn. 113 (7–8): 208–10. PMID1762479.
↑ Report Submitted to the Commission of Experts Established Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (Report). Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 1992.
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