Dalj massacre
 
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The Dalj massacre was a war crime committed by members of the Yugoslav Army (JNA) and members of various Serbian militant groups that took place during the Croatian War between August 1 and December 1991 during the conquest of Dalj . The victims of the massacre were Croatian police officers , soldiers and civilians .
Between 112 and 135 people were murdered during this time. Chronologically, it was the sixth massacre of the Croatian War.
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On April 2, 1991, the Serb rebels erected barricades on the streets connecting Vukovar with Vinkovci , Osijek and Dalj. Thereafter, the Serbian National Council operated the connection of the Serbian Autonomous Regions (SAO) East Slavonia , Baranja and West Syrmia, proclaimed in March 1991 , to the SAO Krajina .
Early on the morning of August 1, 1991, the Serbian rebels attacked the Croatian police station in Dalj with the help of the Yugoslav army (which stood on the Serbian side for the first time in the conflict). They asked for the post to be handed over. After the ten-hour siege with tanks, the post fell. All inmates were then murdered: the victims included 20 police officers, 15 members of the Croatian army and four members of the civil defense . Thousands of refugees then fled to Osijek.
In September and October, the Serbian militant groups arrested various Croatian civilians and held them at the police station. 11 inmates were shot dead. Their bodies were transported to a mass grave in the village of Ćelija .
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia also charged Slobodan Milošević for the murders on October 4, 1991, when members of the territorial defense of the SAO Syrmia, Baranja and East Slavonia, led by Željko Ražnatović , broke into the prison of the police station in Dalj and 28 prisoners shot dead. They then threw the bodies of these Croatian civilians into the Danube . After the Battle of Vukovar , the Yugoslav Army took some prisoners to Dalj prisons on November 20, 1991. There, members of the territorial defense tortured those who had defended Vukovar. At least 34 prisoners were murdered.
On May 13, 2010, the Osijek public prosecutor charged Enes Taso, a 64-year-old Serbian citizen, with war crimes. Allegedly, as the commander, he had ordered his soldiers to attack the police station in Dalj and not to take any prisoners.
Web links
- UN Billet Is a Symbol for Yugoslav Problem New York Times
Individual evidence
- ^ The civilian massacre in Dalj on August 1, 1991 . Retrieved August 1, 2010.
- ↑ N. Patković: Optužnica protiv zapovjednika JNA zbog ratnog zločina nad 112 hrvatskih vojnika i civila . Slobodna Dalmacija . May 14, 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
- ↑ a b Milosevic Indictment: Text . BBC News. October 29, 2001. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
- ↑ Suzana Lepan: Scandal u Dalju: Šišljagić oteo mikrofon pa napao ministre. Večernji list , August 1, 2010, accessed August 1, 2010 .
- ↑ a b ICTY: Milošević Indictment (IT-02-54) - paragraph 51, 55. (PDF; 154 kB) ICTY, October 22, 2002, accessed on August 1, 2010 .
- ↑ U Osijeku optužnica za ratni Zločin nad zarobljenicima i civilima u Dalju. (No longer available online.) Dalje.com, May 13, 2010, archived from the original on June 30, 2012 ; Retrieved August 1, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
