OSIJEK, Sept 13 (Hina) - Several people have been brought into the Osijek-Baranja County police station for interviews during the day regarding war crimes committed against civilians in Paulin Dvor (outside Osijek) in December
1991.
OSIJEK, Sept 13 (Hina) - Several people have been brought into the
Osijek-Baranja County police station for interviews during the day
regarding war crimes committed against civilians in Paulin Dvor
(outside Osijek) in December 1991. #L#
Interviews and the investigation which started in the morning hours
are continuing through the evening, police told Hina.
The police and the state prosecution started an intensive
investigation this May when the Hague Tribunal's investigators
discovered corpses of 18 civilians from Paulin Dvor in a mass grave
near Gospic (central Croatia) and established their identity on the
basis of documents found with them.
Ethnic Serb civilians were killed in the night between 11 and 12
December 1991 in Paulin Dvor, a village which had from time to time
been occupied by Serb rebels and from time to time controlled by
Croatian forces until the peaceful reintegration of eastern
Slavonia.
There are suspicions that 18 corpses were secretly transferred into
the grave at Rizvanusa near Gospic in 1997, while one corpse was
found in Paulin Dvor.
The media have speculated that the Croatian army transferred bodies
in a bid to cover up the crime committed by some individuals from
army ranks.
(hina) lml