Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Baćin massacre was a war crime committed by Croatian Serb paramilitaries on 21 October 1991. It occurred in the village of Baćin, near Hrvatska Dubica in central Croatia, during the Croatian War of Independence. On 20 October 1991, 53 civilians were rounded up by Serb forces in the town and detained in a local fire station. Ten were later released either because they were Serbs or because they were connected with Serbs. Serb forces took the remaining 43 prisoners to a location near the village of Baćin the following day and at least 13 other non-Serb civilians from Baćin and Cerovljani were then brought to the same location. The detainees were placed on a bus and told that they would be released in a prisoner exchange. Croatian Serb paramilitaries instead forced them out of the bus and opened fire on them. All 56 detainees were killed. Their bodies were left out in the open and fourteen days passed before they were buried by Serb forces. Further killings of residents from Hrvatska Dubica, Cerovljani, and Baćin took place elsewhere that day. More than 75 people were killed in the massacre. Fifty-six corpses were exhumed from a mass grave near Baćin in 1997.. }
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- Baćin_massacre abstract "The Baćin massacre was a war crime committed by Croatian Serb paramilitaries on 21 October 1991. It occurred in the village of Baćin, near Hrvatska Dubica in central Croatia, during the Croatian War of Independence. On 20 October 1991, 53 civilians were rounded up by Serb forces in the town and detained in a local fire station. Ten were later released either because they were Serbs or because they were connected with Serbs. Serb forces took the remaining 43 prisoners to a location near the village of Baćin the following day and at least 13 other non-Serb civilians from Baćin and Cerovljani were then brought to the same location. The detainees were placed on a bus and told that they would be released in a prisoner exchange. Croatian Serb paramilitaries instead forced them out of the bus and opened fire on them. All 56 detainees were killed. Their bodies were left out in the open and fourteen days passed before they were buried by Serb forces. Further killings of residents from Hrvatska Dubica, Cerovljani, and Baćin took place elsewhere that day. More than 75 people were killed in the massacre. Fifty-six corpses were exhumed from a mass grave near Baćin in 1997.".