Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Saborsko massacre (Croatian: Pokolj u Saborskom, Serbian: Operacija Saborsko) was the killing of 29 Croat civilian residents of the village of Saborsko on 12 November 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence. The killings took place in the immediate aftermath of fighting in which the Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija – JNA) and Croatian Serb forces took control of the village away from the Croatian police. The fighting took place as a part of an offensive conducted jointly by the JNA and Croatian Serb forces to capture a Croatian-held pocket centered on the town of Slunj, southeast of Karlovac. While the bulk of the civilian population fled with surviving Croatian forces, those who remained in Saborsko were rounded up and either killed or driven away by force. The bodies of the victims were retrieved from two mass graves and several individual graves in 1995.The capture of Saborsko and the killing and expulsion of its civilian population was included in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indictments of Milan Babić and Milan Martić—high-ranking officials of the Croatian Serb-declared wartime breakaway region of SAO Krajina. Following the war, the ICTY convicted Babić and Martić for their role in the events. Saborsko was rebuilt following the war.. }
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- Saborsko_massacre abstract "The Saborsko massacre (Croatian: Pokolj u Saborskom, Serbian: Operacija Saborsko) was the killing of 29 Croat civilian residents of the village of Saborsko on 12 November 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence. The killings took place in the immediate aftermath of fighting in which the Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija – JNA) and Croatian Serb forces took control of the village away from the Croatian police. The fighting took place as a part of an offensive conducted jointly by the JNA and Croatian Serb forces to capture a Croatian-held pocket centered on the town of Slunj, southeast of Karlovac. While the bulk of the civilian population fled with surviving Croatian forces, those who remained in Saborsko were rounded up and either killed or driven away by force. The bodies of the victims were retrieved from two mass graves and several individual graves in 1995.The capture of Saborsko and the killing and expulsion of its civilian population was included in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indictments of Milan Babić and Milan Martić—high-ranking officials of the Croatian Serb-declared wartime breakaway region of SAO Krajina. Following the war, the ICTY convicted Babić and Martić for their role in the events. Saborsko was rebuilt following the war.".