OSIJEK, Sept 14 (Hina) - Osijek-Baranja County police continued on Saturday interviews and investigation of people regarding war crimes against 19 civilians in Paulin Dvor, outside Osijek, in 1991.
OSIJEK, Sept 14 (Hina) - Osijek-Baranja County police continued on
Saturday interviews and investigation of people regarding war
crimes against 19 civilians in Paulin Dvor, outside Osijek, in
1991. #L#
OF the ten persons who were called in for interviews, most of them
were released, while some have been arrested.
Interior Minister spokeswoman Zinka Bardic told Hina the ministry
would issue a statement about the course of the investigation. She
also announced the possibility of several people being brought to
the Osijek County Court investigation centre.
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