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knives, their body parts mutilated, joints and bones crushed and they were then sprayed with bullets from automatic rifles. According to documentation compiled the following day, the bodies of
Mihajlo Å eatoviÄ, MiÅ”o RaÅ”koviÄ and Ljuban VujiÄ were found in the living room in the lower part of the house with overturned chairs next to the tables. Sajka RaÅ”koviÄ's body was found naked on the bed on the first floor with indications that she had been possibly raped.
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Zagreb military court released them under an amnesty law which excused Croat perpetrators of crimes. In 2006, Marica Å eatoviÄ, the widow of the deceased
Mihajlo who had only two years prior learned of the fate of her husband her neighbors, unsuccessfully sought compensation from a municipal court. The families of those killed contacted
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and international organizations which helped bring about a trial for the accused. On 16 April 2010, Raguž was found guilty of war crimes in a first-instance verdict and sentenced to 20 years in prison, while the other accused, Željko Škledar was acquitted. The verdict was overturned upon appeal and
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In the late evening on 21 November 1991, Croatian forces broke into the house of
Mihajlo Å eatoviÄ and took him to a neighboring house where three other Serb civilians were being detained: MiÅ”o and Sajka RaÅ”koviÄ and Ljuban VujiÄ. The four were then tortured and killed. The victims were stabbed with
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In 2010, proceedings were instituted against Željko Belina, Dejan MiliÄ, Ivan GrgiÄ and
Zdravko Plesec, former members of the Croatian Army's First Guard Brigade nicknamed the āTigersā for the crime in the house of Petar MileusniÄ. The suspects were soon released under the explanation of the Sisak
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County Court that this was an adjudicated matter. However, the
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856:Gornje Jame massacre
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963:Operation Maslenica
846:Operation Whirlwind
791:Battle of LogoriŔte
1272:Massacres of Serbs
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973:Operation Backstop
947:Operation VlaŔtica
907:Sarajevo Agreement
861:Operation Orkan 91
786:Operation Otkos 10
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611:1991 riot in Zadar
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