The identification of the remains of 19 Serb civilians finished in Zagreb, Documentation Center Veritas announced yesterday. The Bodies were exhumed in October 2006, from a mass grave found at Sv. Nikola cemetery in Petrinja, Croatia.
Veritas said in a statement that the following victims were indentified: Dušan Prusac from Gornji Klasnić, municipality of Glina, Živko Blanuša from Kremen, municipality of Slunj; Drago Janić from Podravska Slatina, Stanko Vinčić and Dragan Ranić from Petrinja; Đuro Grubješić, Mirko Đaković and Janko Zrnić from Petrinja, Petar Bobić from Otočak, Boško Klipa from Plaško, Jovanka Vidić from Vojnić and Mićo Kosanović from Ogulin; Ranka Radanović from Čremušnice, Vrginmost, Dušan Popović from Vojnić, Ranko Birač from Trnovac, Dragan Jelić from Trnovac, Glina; Dušan Klarić from Kordunski Ljeskovac, Slunj; Miloš Tomić from Tremušnjak, Petrinja, and Miloš Bogojević from Velikog Šušnjara, Petrinja.
Among those now identified is Dušan Klarić. His son Miloš recognized him in August 2006 as he watched footage that showed the Croatian soldiers capture and abuse Serb civilians fleeing their homes in that country duirng a military and police onslaught against them known as Operation.
The refugees were attacked on the Glina-Dvor road by members of the Croatian army’s unit described as elite and known as Crne Mambe (“Black Mambas”).
The first identifications of victims buries at this mass grave location were conducted on December 4, when twelve were identified.
Several similar sites were discovered in the area – such as Dvor 112, Glina 77, Selište 17, Slunj 16 – along with dozens of individual graves, holding the remains of several hundred ethnic Serbs.
But these victims are still awaiting a “favorable political climate” to be exhumed and identified.
According to data published by Veritas, Sector North saw 716 Serbs killed, 446 of them civilians.
No one has been arrested or tried for the crimes committed against the Serbs in this sector, this organization said in a statement, and explained that this goes both for domestic Croatian and international courts.
