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Tuesday, 14 June 2011

CROATIA: War Crimes against Serbs- Wartime Assistant Minister accused of 43 civilians´ deaths

14. June 2011. | 08:05
Source: Emg.rs, Croatian Times
Wartime assistant Interior Minister Tomislav Mercep has been accused of either directly ordering or failing to prevent the illegal detention and torture of 52 civilians from Zagreb, Kutina and Pakrac area.
Wartime assistant Interior Minister Tomislav Mercep has been accused of either directly ordering or failing to prevent the illegal detention and torture of 52 civilians from Zagreb, Kutina and Pakrac area. 

Forty-three of those civilians were killed, three have disappeared, while only six survived with serious physical and psychological traumas, daily Jutarnji List writes. 

The indictment raised against Mercep names 28 of the 52 victimes – 24 of them are listed as unidentified victims, whose bodies were found in mass graves in Pakracka poljana. 

The Interior Ministry unit under Mercep’s command was stationed at the Zagreb Fair and at the Pakracka poljana. The indictment states that the members used the community house and the changing rooms of the local football club as a prison where Serb civilians – who were first robbed of their belongings and savings – were tortured, cut with knives, electrocuted, forced to dig each others' graves and then shot in the head...more: http://www.emportal.rs/en/news/region/157746.html

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