Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia in the northwest, Hungary in the northeast, Serbia in the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro in the southeast, and Italy in the west. Place of crime against Serbs!
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Aleksandra Zec was the daughter of Zagreb butcher Mihajlo Zec, and probably a completely ordinary twelve-year-old girl who would not have deserved to be written about in any way - if she had not been brutally murdered.
At around 11 p.m. on December 7, 1991, Sinisa Rimac, Munib Suljic, Igor Mikola, Nebojsa Hodak and Suzana Zivanovic (members of Mercep's unit) broke into her home at Poljanicka Street 22 in Zagreb's Tresnjevka neighborhood with the intention of arresting Mihajlo Zec for his alleged connections with the rebellious Krajina Serbs. He somehow managed to run out into the street and tried to escape, but was shot by Sinisa Rimac from a distance of about thirty meters.[1]
After that, they tied up 12-year-old Aleksandra and her mother Marija, put them in a van (without license plates) and drove to the Adolfovac mountain lodge on Sljeme, where they killed Aleksandra and her mother and threw them into a garbage pit.
A later investigation revealed that Sinisa Rimac, who had previously killed her father, had asked that Aleksandar not be killed, but that everyone else was against it because she had seen them. She acted in cold blood (with her hands and feet tied) was killed by Munib Suljić with a Heckler automatic rifle, shooting her in the back of the head. [1] Her sister Gordana and brother Dušan managed to survive because they hid in the house and thus escaped the killers.
Read more: We Have Not Forgotten: The Suffering of the Zec Family in Zagreb
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"Illustrated Sheet" was a Croatian illustrated newspaper published during the First World War, reporting on war-related events and publishing photo reports. The newspaper was issued on Saturdays from January 1914 until December 1918, when it changed its name to "Osvit". In issue number 41, dated October 10, 1914, Illustrated Sheet featured on the front page a picture of Serbian prisoners in Zagreb, and inside, a story about them, which we present here in full.
SERBIAN PRISONERS IN ZAGREB
Increasingly, groups of captured Serbian wretches are seen in Zagreb, driven under bayonet to their destinations — naturally, to prison. These are mostly women, elderly people, and children, driven from the border so they won’t hinder the army in its operations. Such transports can number up to 50 heads.
It is understood that in Zagreb, every such prisoner, especially if wearing loose trousers and a sheepskin hat, is considered a komita (rebel), and the public is greatly disappointed by the appearance of these so-called komitas. These people look so miserable that they evoke sympathy rather than anger.
It should be known that real Serbian komitas, caught in the act, are executed on the spot by shooting; therefore, everyone who can escape flees from the army, and those who remain are sent to a secure place.
(Photo: Civil Serbian prisoners from border villages in Serbia and captured Serbian officers being led to the Zagreb garrison prison)
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Zagreb is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is located in the north of the country, along the Sava river, on the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb is located near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia. Place of crime against Serbs!