Croatian prosecution orders investigation into massacre

Municipal Prosecution in Sisak has instructed police to conduct a probe into a war crime in the Croatian town of Dvor in 1995, when 12 Serbs were killed. The prosecution also requested to search the Hague Tribunal’s data base in order to collect information and documents that could help identify the victims and perpetrators. Croatian prosecution orders investigation into massacre The State Prosecution has announced that a report on the war crime against civilian population was submitted to the Municipal Prosecution in Sisak on September 6, 2006. The State Prosecution also says that, according to available information, the crime was committed by members of paramilitary units from the Republic of Serb Krajina while they retreated from Dvor on August 8, 1995. The prosecution added in the announcement that a number of persons had already been questioned but that the perpetrators still had not been indentified. The crime came back to public attention after a Danish soldier told a local TV station that he and other UN members watched 12 masked persons brutally kill mentally ill and elderly people in an elementary school in Dvor na Uni. Croat, Bosniak veterans deny committing crime A statement by a Danish soldier, who claims he was part of a UN unit which watched 12 masked individuals kill 9 Serb civilians in Dvor, Croatia, on August 8, 1995, during Operation Storm, has caused Croatian veterans to react. Former lieutenant in the Croatian Army Damir Grosa, who was in Dvor at the time, told Nova TV he and his soldiers were offended by the allegations because Croats had no part in that crime. Members of the Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian armies were in the area at the time, according to the media and some non-governmental activists, but it has never been determined who killed the civilians. "The crime at the local school happened August 8, but the Croatian forces entered Dvor August 9," Grosa claims. Former Bosnian Army General Atif Dudakovic told Nova TV he had not known about the incident until they mentioned it. According to confidential UN files accessed by Index.hr, which are based on the Danish soldier's testimony, the 12 men in camouflage uniforms who committed the crime wore no markings that could help identify the army they belonged to. The story about the event was started by BT TV from Denmark, which focused on accountability of the Danish troops, since they were meters away when the crime happened. According to the Danish reporter who authored the story, he was approached by Danish soldiers who wanted to tell the truth about the massacre and ease their conscience.

Croatian prosecution orders investigation into massacre

The State Prosecution has announced that a report on the war crime against civilian population was submitted to the Municipal Prosecution in Sisak on September 6, 2006.

The State Prosecution also says that, according to available information, the crime was committed by members of paramilitary units from the Republic of Serb Krajina while they retreated from Dvor on August 8, 1995. The prosecution added in the announcement that a number of persons had already been questioned but that the perpetrators still had not been indentified.

The crime came back to public attention after a Danish soldier told a local TV station that he and other UN members watched 12 masked persons brutally kill mentally ill and elderly people in an elementary school in Dvor na Uni.

Croat, Bosniak veterans deny committing crime

A statement by a Danish soldier, who claims he was part of a UN unit which watched 12 masked individuals kill 9 Serb civilians in Dvor, Croatia, on August 8, 1995, during Operation Storm, has caused Croatian veterans to react.

Former lieutenant in the Croatian Army Damir Groša, who was in Dvor at the time, told Nova TV he and his soldiers were offended by the allegations because Croats had no part in that crime.

Members of the Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian armies were in the area at the time, according to the media and some non-governmental activists, but it has never been determined who killed the civilians.

"The crime at the local school happened August 8, but the Croatian forces entered Dvor August 9," Groša claims.

Former Bosnian Army General Atif Dudaković told Nova TV he had not known about the incident until they mentioned it.

According to confidential UN files accessed by Index.hr, which are based on the Danish soldier's testimony, the 12 men in camouflage uniforms who committed the crime wore no markings that could help identify the army they belonged to.

The story about the event was started by BT TV from Denmark, which focused on accountability of the Danish troops, since they were meters away when the crime happened.

According to the Danish reporter who authored the story, he was approached by Danish soldiers who wanted to tell the truth about the massacre and ease their conscience.