Paulin Dvor ( sr-Cyrl, Паулин Двор) is a village in the municipality of

Šodolovci Šodolovci ( sr-Cyrl, Шодоловци, ) is a village and a municipality in Osijek-Baranja County in eastern Croatia. In the seven villages of the Šodolovci Municipality, there were 1,653 inhabitants at the time of the 2011 census. The landsc ...

, eastern

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, population 76 (census 2011).

History

The village was established as a colonist settlement during the

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. On 11 December 1991 during the

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after the continuous bombardment by the Serbian aggressor, soldiers of the

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committed Paulin Dvor massacre, an act of

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. Of the nineteen victims, eighteen were ethnic

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, and one was a Hungarian national. The ages of the victims ranged from 41 to 85, and eight of the nineteen victims were women. Two former Croatian soldiers were convicted for their role in the killings and were sentenced to 15 and 11 years, respectively. In November 2010, Croatian

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laid a wreath at the graveyard of the massacre victims and officially apologized for the killings.

References

Populated places in Osijek-Baranja County Serb communities in Croatia {{OsijekBaranja-geo-stub