The Gornje Jame massacre was the killing of fifteen
Croat
The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, Ge ...
civilians in
Gornje Jame, a village near
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*Glina, Croatia, a town in Croatia
** Glina massacres, 1941
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, by the
Serbian paramilitary force called ''Šiltovi''.
Events
In 1991, seventeen Croats, twenty-four Serbs and three others lived in Gornje Jame. On December 11 of that year, armed members of the ''Šiltovi'' paramilitary force entered Mate Kireta's house and assembled twelve Croat civilians there, including seven women and three children. The children were two sisters, Nikolina, age 9, and Željka Fabac, age 14, and Darko Dvorenković, age 10.
For the death of 14 civilians, including three children, no one has been held accountable
/ref> Among the other victims were three women from Mala Solina, Donje Jame and Hađer, who had taken refuge at their cousins' residence.
The precise circumstances of the deaths remain unknown, as well as the fate of the women. There is speculation that they were murdered and burned in the house. Another theory is that they were taken alive to an unknown place where they were killed, their bodies buried in mud to conceal the crime.
Gojko Pavlović, a Serbian man from Donje Jame, was gunned down while trying to protect his Croatian neighbours. Three Croatian man from Gornje Jame were imprisoned on November 3, 1991, and then killed near a creek between Donje and Gornje Jame. They were exhumed and buried in 1996.
Memorial
In 2012, a monument was built in Gornje Jame to commemorate the victims of the massacre.
See also
*List of massacres in Croatia
The following is a list of massacres that occurred in the Croatian War of Independence. Numbers may be approximate.
See also
* List of massacres in Yugoslavia
*List of massacres in Bosnia and Herzegovina
* List of massacres in Serbia
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References
A press release on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the crime in the area of Gornje Jame and Joševica, near Glina
External links
"Glas koncila" article: Forgotten Croatian victims from Gornje Jame
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