The war crime in Škabrnja three decades later

28.August 2024 Žarka Radoja

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Former high officials of the Republic of Srpska Krajina - Milan Martić and Milan Babić - were convicted for the crime in Škabrnja before the court in The Hague. And that the JNA planned the attack in advance is confirmed by an entry in the diary of a convict for the most serious war crimes, at the time the chief of staff of the Knin Corps, Ratko Mladić, who wrote on November 17, 1991: it is necessary, let it be done for two days", and then states that it is necessary to "delete it". This crime was part of the Hague indictment against Slobodan Milosevic, as well as the heads of the State Security of Serbia, Jovica Stanišić and Frenki Simatović, before the International Court in The Hague. Milošević died before the verdict, and there was not enough evidence for Stanišić and Simatović

Culture of memory: Branislav Kavalić, former commander of the First Battalion of the Military Police of the Guards Brigade

27.September 2023 Davor Lukacs

The military coup of September 27, 1991.

"Mrkšić calls me to his place in the morning and says: 'Mali (that's what he called me), are you ready to do a serious task?' Because I trusted him as a father, I say I did. And he says: 'A decision has been made to replace the military leadership.' He did not tell me, nor did I ask him who made that decision. He stated that Kadijević (Serb), Brovet (Slovene), RViPVO commander General Zdravko Jurjević (Croat), First Army commander General Aleksandar Spirkovski (Macedonian) and Chief of Staff General Andrija Silić (Croat) should be arrested. I stand up, kiss him, say 'finally' and ask 'when'. He answers 'tonight'”