Documented cases of Serbian terrorism against Bosniaks and Croats in the 1990s

Documented cases of Serbian terrorism against Bosniaks and Croats in the 1990s

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These are accounts of Serbian atrocities, war crimes and terrorism carried out against Bosniaks and Croats.

“Serbian terrorists massacred five Croats, who were identified only by their clothes. The victims were Stjepan Katalinić (55), Jure Sekulić (57), Marko Pavičić (75), Ivan Ivezić (38) and Martin Šarić (40), and one 75 year old.”

Source: Kronologija rata agresija na Hrvatsku i Bosnu i Hercegovinu : (s naglaskom na stradanja Hrvata u BiH, 1989.-1998.)

“Serbian terrorists “threw an explosive device in front of the National Bank in Sarajevo, killing 30 people and wounding 130! But there were probably destructions at Hrasno, Čengić villa”

Source: Crossroads of Sarajevo 1995. University of Michigan. Momčilo Mitrović. Novinsko-izdavačka ustanova “Vojska”.

“Serbian terrorists in the area of ​​the village of Medari shoot down a helicopter carrying EU observers. Pilot Roy Pyffers is slightly wounded.”

Source: National Security and the Future Volym 6 2005. p.137

“June 26, Serbian terrorists attack the police station in Glina; in Mirkovci, Croatian houses are shot at with firearms, in the vicinity of Knin and Benkovac, terrorists break into Croatian houses, and in Bršadin, a police patrol is attacked. Part of the railway line is also damaged…”

Source: p.48. 100 krvavih godina XX. stoljeće u hrvatskoj povijesti : eseji, polmeike, epigrami. Dubravko Jelčić. 2005

“… Serbian terrorists occupy the Peruča hydroelectric power plant and threaten to blow up the facility and destroy the dam, which would have catastrophic consequences for the population downstream of the Cetina River.”

Source: Kolo Matice hrvatske Utgåva 4 2007. p.88

“Serbian terrorists and outlaws again last night set up barricades on the Vrbanja bridge, in Pofalići, in Vrace and in Grbavica”

“That army and the Serbian terrorists are today destroying Bosnia and Herzegovina and killing everything that moves.”

Source: Evropo, stidi se! fragmenti iz sarajevskog ratnog dnevnika i Vehidova pisma. Vehid Gunić · 1999.

“… Serbian terrorists are shooting , shooting and destroying Sarajevo from that place which they have turned into a fortress . Several thousand people have been killed and tens of thousands wounded”

Source: Sjećanja. Eva Grlić. 1997. 9789531880787, 9531880786. University of Michigan.

“Serbian terrorists are trying to expand their para-state to areas where they did not have such a favorable status, but there were “enough” of them to assert their right to another “age-old” Serbian land.”

Source: Smrt oklopne brigade prilozi za istraživanje rata za Hrvatsku i Bosnu i Hercegovinu 1990.-1992. Davor Marijan. 2002.

“Serbian terrorists attacked the town of Karlovac. They raided several suburbs and surrounding villages. Part of the civilian population fled, while terror was carried out against the rest. Several dozen people were slaughtered and massacred.”

Source: Nova matica Volume 43, Editions 1–2. 1993.

“… Serbian terrorists are committing such barbarities that have no equal. And that terrible massacre of the peace-loving people of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia! What they are doing is beyond any civilization.”

Source: Matica časopis Hrvatske matice iseljenika. Volume 45. 1995.

“… Serbian terrorists have been blowing up houses , shops and cars of Bosniaks since August 24th . 29 residential buildings have already been set on fire. The situation is similar in Bijelo Polje and Priboj”.

Source: Etničko čišćenje genocid za veliku Srbiju dokumentacija Društva za ugrožene narode. Tilman Zülch, Muharem Kreso. 1996

“The renegade Croatian Serbs, constantly encouraged by Belgrade against the Croatian legal order and armed by the ‘JNA’, behaved like terrorists. When a large group of these Serbian terrorists occupied Plitvice, Croatian police forces set out on Catholic Easter, March 31, 1991, to drive these terrorists out. Serbian terrorists opened fire from several sides, killing 12 and wounding 20 police officers”

Source: Povijest Hrvata. Ivo Perić. 1997.

Documented case of Serbian terrorists murdering journalists

“The journalists who died were: Egon Scotland (“Suddeutsche Zeitung”, Munich) whose car was shot at by Serbian terrorists near Glina on July 26; Stjepan Penić (producer of Radio Vukovar and correspondent of “Glas Slavonije”) who was arrested by Chetniks in Dalj on August 4, then killed and his body burned three days later; Gordan Lederer, a cameraman for Croatian Television, died on the way to the hospital on August 9, because the so-called Yugoslav Army did not provide a helicopter for transport.”

Source: Svjedočanstva hrvatskog domovinskog rata ’91/92 dnevnik reportera. Dragan Ogurlić. 1992.

“Serbian terrorists (Chetnik volunteers from the Serbian Radical Party of Dr. Vojislav Šešelj and the Serbian Renewal Movement of Mirko Jović, and local Serbs commanded by Vukašin Šoškoćanin) killed 12 and wounded 21 Croatians in an ambush …”

Source: Počeci suvremene hrvatske države kronologija procesa osamostaljenja Republike Hrvatske : od Memoranduma SANU 1986. do proglašenja neovisnosti 8. listopada 1991. Ante Nazor. 2007

“… Serbian forces , violating the ceasefire and causing the deaths of citizens they are constitutionally obligated to protect . It is equally clear that the Serbian republican leadership actively supports the use of force being carried out in Croatia by Serbian terrorists”.

“Especially to the Vukovar area. Chetnik terrorists burned down the Croatian village of Ćelije in eastern Slavonia”

“It is equally clear that the Serbian republican leadership actively supports the use of force being carried out in Croatia by Serbian terrorists and the Yugoslav army. The Serbian republican leadership and the Yugoslav military leadership are also still blocking the implementation of the EC offer, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE, to supervise the ceasefire in Croatia…”

Source: Kako smo srušili Jugoslaviju politički memoari posljednjeg predsjednika Predsjedništva SFRJ. Stipe Mesić. 1992.

“… Serbian terrorists (from areas temporarily under their occupation) continue to provoke with weapons and commit crimes. Today they attacked Zadar, Biograd and surrounding coastal settlements with cannons and rockets. Two people were killed”.

Source: Suverena i samostalna Republika Hrvatska kronika važnijih zbivanja. Ivo Perić. 2007

“On May 2, in Borovo Selo, rebel Serbs attacked a MUP bus, killing 12 Croatian policemen and wounding 21 (four were massacred). On May 5,  Serbian terrorists on the highway between Župania and Slav.”

Source: Povijest Hrvatske. Dragutin Pavličević. 2007.

“… Serbian terrorists are forcing mobilization , with the threat ” that they will kill all Serbs who remained in the apartments and hid like rats ” as well as those who only now wanted to join them”

Source: Grad umire – svijet posmatra Sarajevo 1992-1993 : ratni dnevnik. Josip Ratimir Svoboda. 1993.

“Serbian rebels” or “rebel Serbs” , as Serbian chauvinists and terrorists were called ( i.e. armed thieves of territory and goods , looters , arsonists , rapists and sadistic murderers )….”

Source: Ime zla članci, eseji, putopisi, dnevnici, polemike u sjeni kroatocidnoga rata svibanj 1992.-svibanj 1994. Dubravko Horvatić. 1994.

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