List of massacres in the Croatian War

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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Croatia (numbers may be approximate).

Note that it does not include massacres that occurred on the territory of the Independent State of Croatia between 1941 and 1945.

Name Date Location Deaths Notes
Berak killing September 1991–January 1992 Berak, Croatia 28 Twenty-eight Croats killed by Serb forces over a period of around 3 months, during and after the Battle of Vukovar[1]
Baćin massacre 21 October 1991 Baćin, near Hrvatska Dubica 83 Serb paramilitaries kill 83 Croats in the village of Baćin, near Hrvatska Dubica[2]
Bruška massacre 21 December 1991 Bruška 10 Ten Croats civilians killed by Republic of Serbian Krajina forces.[3]
Dalj massacre 1 August 1991 Dalj 56–57 Serb forces killed 17–18 Croat civilians and 39 Croatian POWs in the village of Dalj[4]
Erdut massacre November 1991 – February 1992 Erdut 37 A series of murders of 37 Croat and Hungarian civilians committed by Croatian Serb forces and Serb Volunteer Guard paramilitaries.[5]
Gospić massacre 16–18 October 1991 Gospić c. 100 About 100 Serb civilians executed by Croatian forces over a period of several days in October 1991.[6]
Saborsko massacre 12 November 1991 Saborsko 29 Serb paramilitaries kill 29 Croats in the village of Saborsko[7]
Kostrići massacre 15 November 1991 Kostrići 16 Serb paramilitaries killed 16 Croat civilians.[8]The massacre committed by Serbian paramilitary forces called Kaline, they are killed all the inhabitants of the village.[9]
Škabrnja massacre 18 November 1991 Škabrnja and Nadin 67 Serb paramilitaries killed 48 Croat civilians[10] and five Croatian POWs in the village of Škabrnja,[11] and 14 civilians in the village of Nadin.[12]
Vukovar massacre 20 November 1991 Vukovar 264 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 Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) withdrawal from Ovčara after it brought those patients there from the Vukovar hospital.[13][14]
Grabovac massacre 4 May 1992 Grabovac 5 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.[15][16]
Gornje Jame massacre 11 December 1991 Gornje Jame 16 15 Croats civilians, one Serb killed by Šiltovi Serbian paramilitary unit.
Voćin massacre 13 December 1991 Voćin 43 Croats civilian population killed by White Eagles paramilitaries during Operation Papuk-91.[17]
Joševica massacre 16 December 1991 Joševica 21 Croats civilians killed by Serb paramilitaries in retribution for losses sustained in Operation Whirlwind.[18]
Lovas killings 10–18 October 1991 Lovas and Opatovac 70 Serb forces killed 70 Croats in the village of Lovas
Paulin Dvor massacre 11 December 1991 Paulin Dvor, near Osijek 19 Croatian Army soldiers massacred eighteen Serbs and one Hungarian in the village of Paulin Dvor
Široka Kula massacre 13 October 1991 Široka Kula, near Gospić, Croatia 41 Name given to a series of October massacres where all victims were found in the same pit. Croatian Serb SAO Krajina police generally targeted ethnic Croat civilians in Široka Kula. It was used as pretext for the Gospić massacre.
Varivode massacre 28 September 1995 Varivode 9 Croat soldiers killed nine elderly Serb civilians in the village of Varivode, although the war was over.[19]

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References

  1. ↑ "Počelo suđenje Gojku Eroru za ratni zločin u Berku" [Gojko Eror's trial for war crimes in Berak has begun] (in Croatian). Croatian Radio-Television. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Prosecutor vs. Milan Martic – Judgement" (PDF). International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. 12 June 2007. pp. 67–69.
  3. ↑ ICTY vs Milan Babic
  4. ↑ Rupić, Marko, ed. (2007). Republika Hrvatska i Domovinski rat 1990. – 1995. – Dokumenti, Knjiga 1. [The Republic of Croatia and the Croatian War of Independence 1990–1995 – Documents, volume 1] (PDF). Zagreb, Croatia: Hrvatski memorijalno-dokumentacijski centar Domovinskog rata. p. 240, note 207. ISBN 978-953-7439-03-3.
  5. ↑ "The Prosecutor of the Tribunal against Slobodan Milosevic (p. 53, 54, 56, 57, 58)" (PDF). ICTY. 2001. Retrieved 29 October 2010.
  6. ↑ Goldstein, Ivo (1999). Croatia: A History. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-7735-2017-2.
  7. ↑ ICTY 6 November 2003, p. 3.
  8. ↑ "Dvadeseta obljetnica zločina u Kostrićima". Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  9. ↑ "Dva krajinska milicajca iz Dvora kazneno prijavljena zbog ratnog zločina, 7. studenoga 2011.". Slobodna Dalmacija. 2011-11-07. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  10. ↑ "Škabrnja obilježava 23. godišnjicu tragedije" [Škabrnja Marks the 23rd Anniversary of the Tragedy] (in Croatian). Zagreb, Croatia: Nova TV (Croatia). HINA. 17 November 2014.
  11. ↑ "Prosecutor v. Milan Martić – Public Judgement" (PDF). The Hague, Netherlands: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. 8 October 2008. p. 72.
  12. ↑ Mišković, Jure (19 November 2013). "Uz jaku kišu održan mimohod Benkovac – Nadin – Škabrnja" [Benkovac–Nadin–Škabrnja Procession Held in Heavy Rain]. Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). Split, Croatia.
  13. ↑ "Serb leader apologises for Croatian massacre". Euronews. November 11, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
  14. ↑ "Final report of the United Nations Commission of Experts established pursuant to security council resolution 780 (1992) – Mass graves – Ovcara". United Nations. December 28, 1994. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
  15. ↑ Cencich, John R. (2013). The Devil's Garden: A War Crimes Investigator's Story. Lincoln, Nebraska: Potomac Books. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-61234-172-9.
  16. ↑ "The Prosecutor of the Tribunal Against Goran Hadžić - Second Amended Indictment" (PDF). International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. 22 March 2012. p. 12.
  17. ↑ Duijzings, Gerlachlus (2000). Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo. London, England: C. Hurst & Co. p. 55. ISBN 9781850653929.
  18. ↑ "Optužnica protiv šestorice državljana Srbije, ubojica iz Gline 1991.". Slobodna Dalmacija. 2008-06-11. Retrieved 2011-01-23. (contains the forensic analysis done by Serb authorities)
  19. ↑ "Hrvatska priznala masakr nad devetoro Srba u Varivodama". Vesti Online. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
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