The village of Uzdolje is located close to Knin, on the road connecting Knin and Drni\u0161. According to the 1991 census, Uzdolje had 767 inhabitants, of whom 765 were Serbs. The 2011 census recorded 226 residents, though this number has further declined since then.<\/p>\n
Date:<\/strong> 6 August 1995<\/p>\n Description of the crime:<\/span><\/strong> In the early hours of 6 August 1995, three men armed with automatic rifles arrived in \u0160are, a hamlet of Uzdolje village in the then Municipality of Orli\u0107, driving a white civilian car. All three had black hair; two wore camouflage uniforms, while the third wore a black neckerchief, camouflage trousers, and a black short-sleeved T-shirt with a black ribbon bearing the inscription \u201cFor Homeland \u2014 ready!\u201d. All three wore dark blue caps with emblems featuring the Croatian checkerboard. They found Krsto \u0160are standing outside his house with Jandrija \u0160are, Stevo Beri\u0107, Janja Beri\u0107, Milica \u0160are, \u0110urdija Beri\u0107, Bosiljka Beri\u0107, and another person \u2014 all dressed in civilian clothes. One of the armed men saw a female witness to the crime, struck her arm with the butt of his rifle, and ordered her to join the others. The armed men then ordered the group to walk towards the paved Knin-Drni\u0161 road. At one point, one of the men pushed Stevo Beri\u0107 to the ground and tore up his documents, saying he would no longer need them. Shortly afterwards, one of the armed men said: \u201cLet’s finish them off, our lamb will get cold.\u201d The group stopped about 30 metres from the road at a spot out of sight of passing vehicles. Two of the armed men left with two local women who were later driven separately to Knin. The third armed man, who had earlier struck the female witness, stayed with the remaining captives and ordered them to walk back from the main road towards the hamlet, insulting them over what had happened in Vukovar and intimidating them. After some time, the group encountered Milo\u0161 \u0106osi\u0107, whom the armed man ordered to join them. The armed man then opened fire on the group with an automatic rifle, killing Milica \u0160are, Stevo Beri\u0107, Janja Beri\u0107, \u0110urdija Beri\u0107, Krsto \u0160are, Milo\u0161 \u0106osi\u0107, and Jandrija \u0160are. The female witness, wounded during the shooting, managed to flee into the forest and survived. An autopsy determined that the victims died from gunshot wounds. On the same day, Sava \u0160are was killed in her home in the hamlet of \u0160are. In the following days after Operation Storm, around ten more civilians were killed in surrounding villages including Orli\u0107, Markovac, Biskupija, and Vrbnik.<\/p>\n Victims:<\/strong><\/p>\n Judicial consequences:<\/span><\/strong> Since no one has been held accountable for the crime in question, Documenta \u2014 Centre for Dealing with the Past filed a criminal complaint with the Croatian State Attorney’s Office (DORH) on 4 August 2017 regarding the crimes committed in Uzdolje. The County State Attorney’s Office in \u0160ibenik responded to the complaint as follows: \u201cFollowing the exhumation conducted in 2001 at the city cemetery in Knin and the receipt of relevant materials, the County State Attorney’s Office in \u0160ibenik opened cases related to the killing of civilians between 6 and 9 August 1995 in Uzdolje and Vrbnik, affecting at least ten civilians, due to suspicion that these constituted war crimes. An order was issued to the competent \u0160ibenik-Knin Police Department and Military Police to conduct investigations and criminal inquiries to establish the circumstances of the killings and identify the perpetrators.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1485","zlocini","type-zlocini","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n