Tordinci ( hu, Valkótard) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

and a municipality in the

Vukovar-Syrmia County Vukovar-Srijem County ( hr, Vukovarsko-srijemska županija), Vukovar-Sirmium County or Vukovar-Syrmia County, named after the eponymous town of Vukovar and the region of Syrmia, is the easternmost Croatian county. It includes the eastern parts of ...

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. Tordinci is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the

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Name

The name of the village in Croatian is plural.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, there are 2,251 inhabitants, in the following settlements: * Antin, population 731 *

Korođ Korođ or Korog ( hu, Kórógy) is a village in the municipality of Tordinci, Vukovar-Syrmia County, Croatia. Korođ is one of the oldest Hungarian settlements in the area of present day Croatia dating back at least to some time before 1290 when t ...

(Kórógy), population 485 * Mlaka Antinska, population 77 * Tordinci, population 739 By ethnicity, 77.61% are

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, 18.26% are

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, 3.54% are

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War

During the

Croatian War of Independence The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugosl ...

, Tordinci was attacked for the first time by artillery on 14 August 1991. New artillery attacks occurred for three consecutive days, on 20–22 August, and were repeated on 30 August. A further artillery attack on the village were recorded on 2 September and one more two days later. On 6 September, Tordinci was shelled again and attacked by

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Territorial Defense Forces (TO) and the

Yugoslav People's Army The Yugoslav People's Army (abbreviated as JNA/; Macedonian and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and bs, Jugoslavenska narodna armija; sl, Jugoslovanska ljudska a ...

(JNA) infantry at 20:00. The infantry attack was successfully repulsed by the

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(ZNG). A series of artillery attacks occurred on 15–29 September, while the JNA and the ZNG fought for control of the JNA barracks in nearby

Vinkovci Vinkovci () is a city in Slavonia, in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia. The city's registered population was 28,247 in the 2021 census, the total population of the city was 31,057, making it the largest town of the county. Surrounde ...

. A fresh ground assault on Tordinci was repulsed by the ZNG on 30 September. The next day, civilian population started to flee Tordinci, panicking after the Croatian Serb TO and JNA captured Antin the previous day. On 2 October, defence of Tordinci was reinforced by 97 ZNG troops of the 109th Infantry Brigade, before a new mortar attack on the village the following day. On 25 October, 30 JNA tanks, supported by infantry, surrounded Tordinci at 22:00. The force captured the village the next day after heavy fighting. During the battle, the ZNG sustained eight fatalities and nine troops were injured before the ZNG retreated from Tordinci. In 2004, a

mass grave A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution, although an exact ...

was discovered in Tordinci, and a total of 208 sets of human remains were recovered in the village by 2012. Since 2002, a memorial procession is held annually through Tordinci, Antin, Ćelije and Korog—villages where mass graves of 266 Croatian soldiers and civilians were found after the war. In the war,

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forces destroyed the bell towers of a Catholic parish in the village of Tordinci by artillery fire. In 2008 the towers were restored. In 2009, Croatian State Attorney's Office charged

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Boro Ivanović with war crimes committed against civilians in the village. The charges include killing of 22 civilians on 25 October 1991, after the a tank company of the

12th Proletarian Mechanised Brigade, supported by Serb paramilitaries, captured the village. The State Attorney's Office also said that 11 additional civilians were arrested, physically abused and taken to the Begejci camp in Serbia.

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References

* {{authority control Municipalities of Croatia Populated places in Vukovar-Syrmia County Populated places in Syrmia