Professional paper
Civilian Victime in Section South During and Immediately Afetr the Operation Storm (Key Indicator)
Igor Graovac
Abstract
Based on the report of the Croatian Helsinki Board for Human Rights in Zagreb, this paper analyses the data on murdered and on some missing civilians in the former Section South under the protection of the United Nations, during the Operation Storm and after it. It also
analyses the structure and other indicators concerning the victims and, partly, the perpetrators. This refers to 410, i.e. after the corrections, 414 determined civilian victims in the year 1995
(94.5 percent), in addition to 24 other victims that fell between the beginning of 1996 and the beginning of 1999 (5.5 percent), which makes a total of 438 victims. This paper analyses/categorizes the victims according to their place of residence or the town, place and
municipality where they perished, and the time of their death, the ways they died, and the information if they perished as a group (one fifth that was killed in massacres) or individually (four fifths). Furthermore, they are analysed according to their gender (there were twice as many male victims than female), age (the victims were mostly old, than elderly and younger middle-aged people, and the least victims were young), and the national affiliation (most
victims were Serbs – even 97 percent). Finally, and in addition to that, perpetrators are stated too (where they had been determined, in more than two fifths of the cases): most victims were killed by the Croatian military forces (two thirds).
Keywords
Croatia; Section South; Operation Storm 1995; Croatian Helsinki Board Report; civilian victims; perpetrators
Hrčak ID:
2864
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2004.
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