War crimes in Saborsko
The war crime in Saborsko was a war crime committed by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Serbian friar associations , which was committed on November 12, 1991 in the village of Saborsko , central Croatia during the Croatian War . According to the 1991 census, the place had 1,701 inhabitants and 460 households. Most of the Croatians lived in Saborsko .
Local Serb paramilitaries began attacks on Croatian villages on October 1, 1991, with military support from units of the Yugoslav People's Army stationed in Knin , including Saborsko, which is about 10 km northwest of the Plitvice Lakes . The military action took place within the framework of the so-called ethnic cleansing with the aim of creating the Republic of Serbian Krajina .
On November 12, the attackers broke the villagers' defenses, went from house to house and murdered 29 people who did not want to or could not flee. All houses were looted and burned down. The Catholic Church was blown up and the cemetery devastated.
The surviving villagers made their way through the forests for three days in the dark to Bihać in Bosnia-Herzegovina , where they were finally taken in. From there, the displaced were brought back to Croatia by bus and housed in hotels.
All in Saborsko during the Croatia war 80 people killed and wounded 160th
Web links
- Glas koncila, in Croatian
- ICTY indictment against Saborsko, indictment against Milan Babić, in English, paragraph 15
- Newspaper article from Vjesnik, November 23, 2002, PDF (Croatian; 94 kB)
- Newspaper article from Vjesnik, Saborsko napadnuto da bi se zaokružio »srpski prostor«, November 16, 2002 (Croatian)