Location Kostrići, Croatia Total number of deaths 16 | Target Croat civilians Date 15 November 1991 | |
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Perpetrators Kaline Serbian paramilitary unit | ||
The Kostrići massacre was the killing 16 Croat civilians in the village of Kostrići, near Hrvatska Kostajnica. The massacre committed by Serbian paramilitary forces called Kaline under leadership of Stevo Borojević, they are killed all the inhabitants of the village. The killings took place on 15 November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence. Among those killed there were children, one of two and one of four years. The oldest victim was 93 years old.
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Serbs came into the village from two directions, from Hrvatska Kostajnica and Majur. In one house they found a young woman with two children, who were sitting on the bed. And asked where her husband was. She told them that he had gone to a neighboring village Stubljani, and then killed. When the husband returned to the village he found a horrific scene, then went to report the crime in Hrvatska Kostajnica. When he gave a statement to the police, and he was killed in a police station. The village after the crime had been looted and burned. Identified only seven victims. Some victims were found after the war in a burned and destroyed homes. For this massacre still nobody is not convicted.
Serbian paramilitary forces Kaline also killed five police officers and two civilians in the village Volinja in October 1991.
Memorial
In 2011. a monument to victims of massacre was unvelied . Names of victims of the massacre are inscribed on the monument.