Medari
Medari is a village in municipality of Dragalić in Brod-Posavina County, Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze .... The Medari massacre took place in this village on 1 May 1995. References Populated places in Brod-Posavina County {{BrodPosavina-geo-stub ...
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Medari Massacre
The Medari massacre was the mass murder of 22 Croatian Serb civilians on 1 May 1995 by members of the Croatian Army (HV) during Operation Flash. Background In 1990, following the Croatian parliamentary election, 1990, electoral defeat of the government of the Socialist Republic of Croatia by the Croatian Democratic Union (, HDZ), ethnic tensions between Croats and Serbs worsened. The self-styled Republic of Serb Krajina (RSK) declared its intention to secession, secede from Croatia and join the Republic of Serbia (1990-2006), Republic of Serbia while the Government of Croatia, Government of the Republic of Croatia declared it a rebellion. In June 1991 Independence of Croatia, Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia. Tensions eventually broke out into Croatian War of Independence, full-scale war, which lasted until 1995. From May 1–3, 1995, the Croatian Army conducted Operation Flash against the RSK. The military operation succeeded in capturing 558-square-kilometre territ ...
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