List of massacres in the Croatian War

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Croatia (numbers may be approximate).

Note that it does not include massacres that occurred on the territory of the Independent State of Croatia between 1941 and 1945.

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
Berak killing	September 1991–January 1992	Berak, Croatia	28	Twenty-eight Croats killed by Serb forces over a period of around 3 months, during and after the Battle of Vukovar[1]
Baćin massacre	21 October 1991	Baćin, near Hrvatska Dubica	83	Serb paramilitaries kill 83 Croats in the village of Baćin, near Hrvatska Dubica[2]
Bruška massacre	21 December 1991	Bruška	10	Ten Croats civilians killed by Republic of Serbian Krajina forces.[3]
Dalj massacre	1 August 1991	Dalj	56–57	Serb forces killed 17–18 Croat civilians and 39 Croatian POWs in the village of Dalj[4]
Erdut massacre	November 1991 – February 1992	Erdut	37	A series of murders of 37 Croat and Hungarian civilians committed by Croatian Serb forces and Serb Volunteer Guard paramilitaries.[5]
Gospić massacre	16–18 October 1991	Gospić	c. 100	About 100 Serb civilians executed by Croatian forces over a period of several days in October 1991.[6]
Saborsko massacre	12 November 1991	Saborsko	29	Serb paramilitaries kill 29 Croats in the village of Saborsko[7]
Kostrići massacre	15 November 1991	Kostrići	16	Serb paramilitaries killed 16 Croat civilians.[8]The massacre committed by Serbian paramilitary forces called Kaline, they are killed all the inhabitants of the village.[9]
Škabrnja massacre	18 November 1991	Škabrnja and Nadin	67	Serb paramilitaries killed 48 Croat civilians[10] and five Croatian POWs in the village of Škabrnja,[11] and 14 civilians in the village of Nadin.[12]
Vukovar massacre	20 November 1991	Vukovar	264	A mostly Croatian group of 263 men and 1 woman (including civilians and POWs), of whom 194 have been identified, were murdered by members of the Serb militias following the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) withdrawal from Ovčara after it brought those patients there from the Vukovar hospital.[13][14]
Grabovac massacre	4 May 1992	Grabovac	5	Serbia's Red Berets special forces abducted and killed three men and two women. They were initially buried in Tikveš, before the bodies were moved to conceal the killings.[15][16]
Gornje Jame massacre	11 December 1991	Gornje Jame	16	15 Croats civilians, one Serb killed by Šiltovi Serbian paramilitary unit.
Voćin massacre	13 December 1991	Voćin	43	Croats civilian population killed by White Eagles paramilitaries during Operation Papuk-91.[17]
Joševica massacre	16 December 1991	Joševica	21	Croats civilians killed by Serb paramilitaries in retribution for losses sustained in Operation Whirlwind.[18]
Lovas killings	10–18 October 1991	Lovas and Opatovac	70	Serb forces killed 70 Croats in the village of Lovas
Paulin Dvor massacre	11 December 1991	Paulin Dvor, near Osijek	19	Croatian Army soldiers massacred eighteen Serbs and one Hungarian in the village of Paulin Dvor
Široka Kula massacre	13 October 1991	Široka Kula, near Gospić, Croatia	41	Name given to a series of October massacres where all victims were found in the same pit. Croatian Serb SAO Krajina police generally targeted ethnic Croat civilians in Široka Kula. It was used as pretext for the Gospić massacre.
Varivode massacre	28 September 1995	Varivode	9	Croat soldiers killed nine elderly Serb civilians in the village of Varivode, although the war was over.[19]

See also

• List of massacres in Yugoslavia
• List of massacres in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• List of massacres in Serbia
• List of massacres in Slovenia
• Bloody Christmas

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