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and other Serb paramilitary forces entered Borovo Naselje on 19 November 1991 and killed 51 local civilians. Serb forces then entered the Borovo Commerce building hospital, forcibly removing 115 soldiers and civilians, many of whom were wounded, subsequently executing all of those removed in various
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In 2002, Croatia issued an arrest warrant for Milan Gojković, charged with criminal acts related to the selection, abuse and killings of civilians and POWs from the Borovo Commerce building on 19 November 1991. Gojković had already been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in a court ruling 1997.
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Croat forces in Vukovar surrendered on the 18th November 1991. During that time, 176 civilians and soldiers died during the fighting in Borovo Naselje.
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in 2019 and was found guilty on two counts of war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war and sentenced in 2021 by an
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The remains of 48 people that were taken from the Borovo Commerce building are still missing to this day.
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locations in Borovo Naselje and the wider Vukovar area. Many of the bodies were thrown into the river
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Others from Borovo Naselje that were not killed or expelled were sent to various detention camps in
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Borovo Naselje on the map of Croatia, JNA/SAO Krajina-held areas in late 1991 are highlighted in red
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and other non-Serb civilians and POWs by Serb forces on 19 November 1991 in the
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Serbian war crimes in the Croatian War of Independence
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Croatian War of Independence
Borovo Naselje massacre is located in Croatia

Borovo Naselje
Croatia
Croats
Mass killing
ethnic cleansing
JNA
Croat
Vukovar
Borovo Naselje
Battle of Vukovar
Borovo Naselje
Vukovar
Croatian War of Independence
Bata Corporation
Battle of Vukovar
JNA
Vukovar Hospital
JNA
Danube
Serbia
Norway
Osijek
"Commemorations held in Borovo naselje"
"Iz Borovo Commerca 115 ranjenika odvedeno u nepoznato i pogubljeno"
"Obilježena 32. obljetnica stradanja branitelja i civila u Borovu naselju u Domovinskom ratu"
"Victims killed in Borovo in 1991 commemorated"
"Croatia marks 26th anniversary of suffering in Borovo naselje"

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