On 16 November 1991, seven members of the Serbian army were captured in the village of Glibodol near Otočac and then all transported by military truck to the military barracks in Ogulin. Two days later, on 18 November, Ivan Mihalić, a member of the 143rd Ogulin Brigade of the Croatian Army, entered the detention facilities and killed the captured soldiers from Glibodol with a burst of gunfire. Afterward, the bodies of the deceased were cremated, and the urns of the deceased were handed over to their families three months later through the mediation of UNPROFOR, the Croatian authorities, and the authorities of the then so-called Krajina.

Date: 18 November 1991

Victims:

  1. Cvjetičanin, Bude (Mićo), born 19 April 1954
  2. Kliska, Ilija (Ilija), born 8 August 1968
  3. Kliska, Milan (Mile), born 22 May 1962
  4. Kliska, Nikola (Mićo), born 19 January 1962
  5. Vlaisavljević, Dušan (Ilija), born 6 May 1976
  6. Vlaisavljević, Đuro (Stevo/Vajo), born 14 June 1972
  7. Vlaisavljević, Mile (Jovan), born 18 March 1952

All the victims were residents of Dabar, except for Dušan Vlaisavljević, who lived in Zagreb.

Judicial consequences: By a verdict of the military court in Karlovac on 26 June 1992, Ivan Mihalić was found guilty of, “as a member of the sabotage unit of the 143rd Brigade of the Croatian Army, contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 12 August 1949, and with the intent to kill members of enemy military formations who were captured on 16 November 1991 during an armed conflict between the Croatian Army and the so-called ‘Territorial Defence — SAO Krajina Knin’ near the village of Glibodol — municipality of Otočac and who were temporarily held in the command building, by pointing an automatic rifle known as the ‘Argentine’ calibre 7.62 mm at the guard Josip Salopek, who was watching the prisoners, pushing him aside and entering the premises, where he demanded the prisoners who were sitting to stand up, then fired multiple rounds at them with a burst of gunfire, hitting Nikola Klisk, Milan Klisk, Ilija Klisk, Mila Vlaisavljević, Đuro Vlaisavljević, Duško Vlaisavljević, and Budu Cvjetičanin, inflicting severe and life-threatening injuries from which they died instantly on the spot.” The Supreme Military Court of the Republic of Croatia ruled on 7 October 1992 to dismiss Ivan Mihalić’s appeal as unfounded and upheld the verdict of the first-instance court. After the lawsuit was filed, compensation was awarded to the families of the victims.