Serbs fleeing Krajina as refugees during Croatia's offensive in 1995
More than 300,000 Serbian refugees fled Croatia
Croatians fleeing Vukovar during Serbia's offensive in 1991
The Vukovar massacre was a war crime that took place between November 18 and November 21, 1991 near the city of Vukovar, a mixed Croat/Serb community in northeastern Croatia. Over 200 people, mostly Croats (including civilians and POWs), of whom 194 have been identified, were murdered by members of the Serb militias aided by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).
Yugoslav military leaders Veselin Šljivančanin and Mile Mrkšić were indicted for their roles in orchestrating the massacre and convicted by the international court in 2007, but the same year Šljivančanin was released (because he already served his punishment of just 5 years in custody) and Mrkšić was convicted for 20 years. Miroslav Radić was free of charge. The original indictment included a number of 264 non-Serbs killed. In the trial against Vojislav Šešelj, the indictment listed 255 names in relation to Ovčara. The names include one woman, a 77-year old man as the oldest and a 16-year old boy as the youngest victim of the massacre; 23 of these are older than 49 years, which is higher than Croatian military service age. Victims also included French volunteer Jean-Michel Nicolier and journalist Siniša Glavašević and his technician.
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It was a truly vicious war on all sides. However, more people know about Vukovar than know about Operation Storm, which permanently ethnically cleansed Croatia of several hundred thousand Serbs, mostly elderly and mostly unarmed civilians who'd lived in this area since the days of Empress Maria Theresa.
One of the accused , Gotovina, is seen as "a hero" in some Croatian circles that they are making a movie about him, starring Gorna Visnjic (of ER fame) as Gotovina. Sick!
The Serbs of occupied Croatia were following the orders of their politicians and evacuated the territory.
They had staged several dry runs in the weeks prior to Storm.
As one of the Serbian generals said, "Knin fell in Belgrade". The Serbs of Croatia were sold out by their brothers in Belgrade.....we told them that would happen. They didn't listen.
You are posting a picture of dead Serb civilians killed in Vukovar by the retreating Croat forces. They have fully been fully identified, and their names are printed below. You stole the photo from sokolac.slavicnet.com which can be seen when viewing the address photo properties of your image.
That photo is one of many of murdered Serbs found on this page where you are getting that image AND USING DEAD SERBS KILLED BY CROATS AS EVIDENCE AGAINST SERBS.: http://sokolac.slavicnet.com/sokolac/sokolac_history2_forum.html
Only you have made up your own false caption. The true caption from the source of the photo reads:
"On the eve of the liberation of Vukovar, civilians of Serbian origin were dragged out of cellars and shelters, after which they were killed in front of their homes. The folloving people were killed at Nikola Demonja Street No. 74: Radoslav Pavic, Zoran Pavlovic, Zorica Pavlovic, Nada Pavlovic, Milojka Pavlovic, Velimir Trajkovic."
From another source which gives more on the relationships of the people and how they were killed:
This photo shows Serb victims, Radosav Pavic and Velimir Trajkovic (both wearing red). The other victims are Zorica Pavlovic, her brother Zoran, mother Nada and Milojka Pavlovic. All axed to death by Croatian "skullcrushers", sending a clear message to the Serbs that the Ustashi beast was not dead.
And by the way the "Vukovar massacre" is about alleged crimes against captured POWs NOT CIVILIANS, family members, in jeans, sweaters and overalls, as in the photo.
Further, it should be pointed out the smoking ruin in the first photo of fleeing Serbs - there were areas of Serbs being strafed and killed by the Croatian airforce, as well the Bosnian Muslim army did invade parts of Croatia to kill fleeing refugees and attack and burn their homes and livestock.
Many refugees were killed before they reached Bosnia and Croatia.
Which only goes to show you can't just use 2 pictures and know everything, nor should you post photos of dead without knowing the true identities of at least some of them to insure who they were and who killed them.
The Croatian police, troops and death squads did murder many Serb civilians. The killings were initiated by Tomislav Mercep in early May 1991.