On this day in 1991, four Croatian police officers were brutally killed while driving in their Zastava 101 police car near the village of Žuta Lokva. Drago Toljan, Zdravko Vuković, …
In late August of 1991, rebel Serb forces with the help of the Yugoslav People’s Army (YPA) tightened their grip on Topusko. On 23 August 1991 Božidar Jagatić, hero of …
On this day in 1991 Croatian forces launched the first major offensive on the Sisak battlefront. The objective of Operation “BRĐANI ’91” was to unblock the road between Komarevo and …
Members of the 108th Slavonian-Brod Brigade and the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd A Brigade of the National Guard Corps achieved a major accomplishment in stopping a train carrying weapons …
In August 1994, a large number of Muslim refugees from western Bosnia arrived in Turanj, a southern suburb of the town of Karlovac. They sought safety in Croatia first but …
On this day, 19 August 1991 rebel Serbs attacked Pakrac, Lipik and Daruvar. The situation in the area had been extremely tense since 1 March 1991 when Serb police officers …
Rebel Croatian Serbs abducted Dr. Ivan Šreter, a local leader of Croats in western Slavonia, at barricades in the village of Kukunjevac near Lipik on 18 August 1991. Ivan Šreter …
On 17 August 1990, Croatian Serbs set up roadblocks around the town of Knin. It was the beginning of a revolt by some Serbs against the new government elected in …
On 16 August 1991, in the village of Pecki near Petrinja, rebel Serbs committed one of the most horrific crimes of the Homeland War. Pecki, a small village in the …
Lado Lekčević of Grubišno Polje and hero of Croatia’s Homeland War was killed in the battle for Bosanska Posavina on this day in 1992. Lekčević was born on February 18, …
