On 29 October 1991, members of the Po\u017eega civil protection and police began enforcing an evacuation order for all residents from 26 villages with exclusively or predominantly Serb populations, located in the Po\u017eega Valley at the foothills of the Papuk and Psunj mountains. The order had been issued the previous day by the Crisis Staff of the Slavonska Po\u017eega Municipality. The evacuation, which was to be completed within 48 hours, covered the villages of Oblakovac, \u010ce\u010dava\u010dki Vu\u010djak, Jeminovac, \u0160njegavi\u0107, \u010ce\u010davac, Koprivna, Rasna, Pasikovci, Kujnik, Orljavac, Crljenci, Slobo\u0161tina, Milivojevci, Podsre\u0107e, Vrani\u0107, Nje\u017ei\u0107, Po\u017ee\u0161ki Markovac, Klisa, Ozdakovci, Poljanska, Kantrovci, Gornji Vrhovci, Lu\u010dinci, Oljasi, all specifically named in the order, with Smoljanovci and Ru\u0161evac added later, where according to the 1991 census, 2,120 people lived. Of these villages, only Poljanska, Orljavac, and Lu\u010dinci had mixed ethnic populations, while the others were inhabited exclusively by Serbs. The evacuation did not include the Croatian villages of Ivandol, De\u017eevci, Perenci, Toranj, and Bi\u0161kupci, which border the Serb villages. These villages were designated as \u201ccollection areas\u201d for the residents.<\/p>\n
Period:<\/strong> From October to November 1991<\/p>\n Description of crimes:<\/strong> The written evacuation order, posted in public places on 28 October 1991, stated that \u201crecently, Chetnik terrorist forces and JNA units have increasingly endangered the civilian population in the western part of the Slavonska Po\u017eega Municipality through their combat activities\u201d and that the evacuation was carried out \u201cto protect their lives and to enable a more successful defence of the defensive positions of Croatian forces in that area.\u201d Some residents of the 26 villages subject to the evacuation order complied as demanded by the Crisis Staff, but others chose to remain in their homes. Although the population was promised during the evacuation that they would find everything as they left it upon their return, soon after the evacuation, looting, arson, and mining of Serb houses began. According to some data, over the following months, more than 600 residential and farm buildings were burned and mined. Residents of the villages \u010ce\u010dava\u010dki Vu\u010djak and \u0160njegavi\u0107 largely refused to evacuate, and some of the residents from the evacuated villages sought refuge in those villages. On 10 October 1991, units of the 121st Brigade from Nova Gradi\u0161ka and the 123rd Brigade from Slavonska Po\u017eega began a large-scale clearing operation in the areas of the villages \u010ce\u010dava\u010dki Vu\u010djak, \u0160njegavi\u0107, Jeminovac, Sinlije, and Ru\u0161evac. During the \u201cclearing\u201d operations, Croatian forces killed at least forty residents in these villages. The majority of those killed were Serbs, mostly elderly civilians. On 11 December 2000, a mass grave was excavated in \u0160njegavi\u0107, where the bodies of 13 people were found. Identification of the remains is still pending. The remains of most of the killed have yet to be found.<\/p>\n Missing and killed civilians by village:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u0160njegavi\u0107<\/p>\n \u010ce\u010dava\u010dki Vu\u010djak<\/p>\n Ru\u0161evac<\/p>\n \u010ce\u010davac<\/p>\n Jeminovac<\/p>\n Oljasi<\/p>\n Ozdakovci<\/p>\n Sinlije<\/p>\n Judicial consequences:<\/span><\/strong> On March 17, 2000, the first criminal complaint was filed against unknown individuals connected to this crime, but to date, no one has been held accountable for these crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1480","zlocini","type-zlocini","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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