Izravni demografski gubici na privremeno okupiranom području općina Daruvar i Grubišno Polje 1991. godine, na temelju arhivskog gradiva "RSK"
Direct Demographic Losses in the Temporarily Occupied Area of the Municipalities Daruvar and Grubišno Polje in 1991 Based on the Archival Material of the Republic of Serbian Krajina

Summary/Abstract: This paper intends to establish direct demographic losses suffered in the temporarily occupied area of the municipalities Daruvar and Grubišno Polje in 1991, based on the confiscated official documentation of rebel Croatian Serbs; this documentation is in safekeeping at the Croatian Memorial and Documentation Centre of the Homeland War in Zagreb. Special attention has in this regard been paid to the status of the killed individuals (members of the Yugoslav National Army; members of the Serbian paramilitary units; civilians); their date and place of birth, or residence; as well as the date, place and circumstances of their killing. Since the majority of the mentioned persons had been killed in Croatian liberation operations Otkos-10 and Papuk-91, the course of events during these operations was briefly analysed as well; additionally, the independence-gaining process in the Republic of Croatia, and the beginnings or development of Serbian mutiny in the area of the present Bjelovar–Bilogora County were reviewed in general. The research has, inter alia, proved that the majority of Serbian victims from the areas around Daruvar and – even more – Grubišno Polje, whose circumstances of death are known to us, were killed in close combat with members of Croatian units, in most cases as the result of shooting. It was further established that – in the same period – rebels had in this territory suffered far less human losses than their compatriots from the neighbouring western Slavonian municipalities (Pakrac, Novska and Nova Gradiška). This text should – as this topic is exceptionally interesting yet almost entirely unresearched – contribute to a better understanding of the extremely complex events, which had taken place during the war-struck 1991 in the territory of the municipalities Daruvar and Grubišno Polje.

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