Until 1991, Medari was part of the Municipality of Nova Gradi\u0161ka, and today it belongs to one of the youngest municipalities in Croatia, the Municipality of Dragali\u0107. According to the 1991 census, Medari had 452 inhabitants, of whom 367 were Serbs. According to the most recent census in 2011, the village has 211 residents. Detailed data on the ethnic composition of the population are not yet available.<\/p>\n
Date:<\/strong> 1 May 1995<\/p>\n Description of the crime:<\/span><\/strong> On the first day of Operation Flash, 1 May 1995, at around 6 a.m., members of the Croatian Army entered the village of Medari and committed a war crime against civilians they found in their homes. Twenty-one people were brutally killed using both firearms and cold weapons. The scale of the crime is underscored by the fact that among the victims were three children and eleven women, and most of the men were elderly. The youngest victim was 7 years old, the oldest 88, and as many as seven members of a single family (the Vukovi\u0107 family) were killed. All the victims were of Serbian nationality. According to statements from the victims’ families, the residents of Medari believed that, in the event of the Croatian Army entering the village, they would be protected by UNPROFOR, whose base was located in the immediate vicinity of the village.<\/p>\n Victims:<\/strong><\/p>\n Regarding Dragan Romani\u0107 (born 1 January 1935), subsequent verifications established that the person died a natural death in 1990.<\/p>\n Information on the exhumation and identification of the victims:<\/strong> On 3 July 2010, the exhumation of the remains of 28 persons was completed from a mass grave located within the local cemetery in the village of Trnava. At the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Zagreb, on 29 March 2011, the following victims were identified: Cvijeta Vukovi\u0107, An\u0111elija Vukovi\u0107, Ranko Vukovi\u0107, Milutin Vukovi\u0107, Gordana Vukovi\u0107, Goran Vukovi\u0107, Dragana Vukovi\u0107, Ru\u017ea Di\u010dko, \u017deljko Di\u010dko, and Jovan Grmu\u0161a; and in April 2012: Kata Vlajsavljevi\u0107, Zorka Tomi\u0107, Draga \u0110umi\u0107, and Anka Ninkovi\u0107.<\/p>\n Judicial consequences:<\/span><\/strong> To date, no one has been criminally held accountable for the crime in Medari. The procedure is still in the pre-investigation phase and is conducted against unknown perpetrators. Until the exhumation of the victims’ remains in Medari in 2010, the case was in the hands of the County State Attorney’s Office in Slavonski Brod, but in 2010 the case was transferred, by decision of the State Attorney’s Office of the Republic of Croatia (DORH), to the County State Attorney’s Office in Osijek. However, no indictment has yet been filed for the crime in Medari. The Vukovi\u0107 sisters, whose parents and younger sister were killed in the crime, initiated a compensation lawsuit on 4 September 2006 before the Municipal Court in Nova Gradi\u0161ka, based on the Act on the Responsibility of the Republic of Croatia for Damage Caused by Members of the Croatian Armed Forces and Police during the Homeland War. That same court dismissed the claim as unfounded on 4 November 2009. The Civil-Administrative Department of the Municipal State Attorney’s Office in Zagreb rejected the request for an out-of-court settlement because, in their interpretation, this was not a war crime, but civilians who suffered war damage. Based on costs incurred from the civil procedure initiated in relation to the claim for compensation for non-material damage due to the killing of the parents and minor sister, the Municipal State Attorney’s Office in Nova Gradi\u0161ka initiated foreclosure proceedings on the Vukovi\u0107 sisters’ property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1349","zlocini","type-zlocini","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n