Baćin massacre

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The massacre Baćin was a war crimes during the Croatia war , which on 21 October 1991 by guerrillas of the Krajina Serbs in the village of Baćin near Hrvatska Dubica was committed, in central Croatia.

prehistory

In September 1991, most civilians had fled Dubica due to Serbian attacks. The Serbian troops were under the command of Milan Martić , who was later convicted as a war criminal, and were supported by troops of the Yugoslav People's Army . On October 7, 1991 they conquered the area around Hrvatska Kostajnica .

About 120 Croatian civilians remained in the villages around Hrvatska Dubica, Cerovljani and Baćin.

massacre

On the morning of October 20, 1991, Serbian forces arrested 53 civilians in Dubica. According to the indictment against Milan Babić , the next day the paramilitaries captured another 43 people near Baćin . Most recently, another 13 non-Serbs were captured near Baćin and Cerovljani . All 56 civilians were shot at the Krečane settlement between Baćin and Dubica. The mass grave on the Una was discovered in 1997 and 37 victims were identified. Most of the victims were between 60 and 90 years old.

Around the same time, Serbian Serb paramilitaries murdered another 30 civilians from Baćin and 24 from Dubica and Cerovljani in unknown locations.

A total of 110 people were murdered.

The events were described by witnesses during the ICTY trial against Slobodan Milošević .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/bab-ii031117e.htm
  2. ↑ UN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS: Situation of human rights in the former Yugoslavia (section 51) (PDF; 116 kB)

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