Total number of deaths 16 | Date 11 December 1991 | |
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Perpetrators Šiltovi Serbian paramilitary unit | ||
The Gornje Jame massacre was the killing 15 Croat civilians in the village of Gornje Jame, near Glina. The massacre committed by Serbian paramilitary forces called Šiltovi. Among the killed and one Serb Gojko Pavlović who defended their Croat neighbors. Three Croats man were imprisoned on 3 November 1991, and then also gunned down on a crook between Donje and Gornje Jame. They were exhumed and buried in 1996.
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In Gornje Jame 1991 lived 17 Croats, 24 Serbs and 3 others.
Armed members of the paramilitary formation 'Šiltovi' on 11 December 1991 entered the houseof Mate Kireta and assembled 12 Croat civilians by force, including 7 women and 3 under agedchildren two sister Nikolina (9) and Željka Fabac (14) and Darko Dvorenković (10). Among the victims were 3 women from Mala Solina, Donje Jame and Hađer, who took refuge at their cousins'. Precise circumstances of the suffering remain unknown, so as the fate of the women. There are speculations they were murdered and burned in the house of Mate Kireta, but the other assumption is they were taken alive to an unknown place where they were killed, with their bodies thrown in the mud to conceal the traces of the crime.
Gojko Pavlović Serb from Donje Jame was gunned down while trying to protect his Croat neighbours. Three Croats man from Gornje Jame were imprisoned on 3 November 1991, and then also gunned down on a crook between Donje and Gornje Jame. They were exhumed and buried in 1996.
Memorial
In Gornje Jame 2012 discovered a monument to victims of massacre.