Anti-Serb riots in Zadar in 1991

During anti-Serb riots in Zadar 1991 on May 2, 1991, an angry crowd of Croats devastated 116 Serbian and Yugoslavian shops and houses in the city of Zadar in northern Dalmatia in a violent attack lasting several hours . The riots were triggered by the murder of the 23-year-old Croatian policeman Franko Lisica (born September 24, 1968) from the Zadar suburb of Bibinje , who was shot by militant Krajina heirs on the same day on the Štrkovač hill in Polača . After his death became known in his hometown, about a hundred mostly young Croatians from Bibinje made their way to Zadar. On arrival they chanted “Dajte nam oružje!” (Give us weapons!) And “Četnici, četnici!” ( Chetniks , Tschetniks!). The Croatian insurance company Croatia osiguranje agreed to compensate for the damage.

To date, no one has been held accountable for the crimes committed. Franko Lisica is considered to be the first Croatian victim of the Croatian war in the Zadar district. Several public institutions in the district are named after him, e.g. B. the Polača primary school.

Web links

Borna Marinić: Prva žrtva Domovinskog Rata u zadarskom kraju - 2nd svibnja. Informativni portal o događajima iz Domovinskog Rata, accessed on November 4, 2018 .

Individual evidence

↑ Franko Lisica - obilježena 20-obljetnica pogibije. Policijska uprava Zadarska, May 2, 2011, accessed April 8, 2015 (Croatian).
↑ Jemera Rone, Ivana Nizich: Appendix C: Helsinki Watch Report on Human Rights - Abuses in the Croatian Conflict, September 1991 . In: Human Rights Watch (ed.): War crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina (= Helsinki Watch report ). Human Rights Watch, New York 1992, ISBN 1-56432-083-9 , pp. 249–250 ( hrw.org [PDF; accessed June 25, 2013]).
^ Bogdan Denis Denitch: Ethnic Nationalism: The Tragic Death of Yugoslavia . Ed .: The University of Minniosta. 4th edition. 1997, ISBN 0-8166-2947-1 , pp. 4 .

[1] Franko Lisica - obilježena 20-obljetnica pogibije. Policijska uprava Zadarska, May 2, 2011, accessed April 8, 2015 (Croatian).

[2] Jemera Rone, Ivana Nizich: Appendix C: Helsinki Watch Report on Human Rights - Abuses in the Croatian Conflict, September 1991 . In: Human Rights Watch (ed.): War crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina (= Helsinki Watch report ). Human Rights Watch, New York 1992, ISBN 1-56432-083-9 , pp. 249–250 ( hrw.org [PDF; accessed June 25, 2013]).

[3] Bogdan Denis Denitch: Ethnic Nationalism: The Tragic Death of Yugoslavia . Ed .: The University of Minniosta. 4th edition. 1997, ISBN 0-8166-2947-1 , pp. 4 .