| Novo Selo Glinsko massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of theCroatian War of Independence | |
   Novo Selo Glinsko Novo Selo Glinsko on the map of Croatia, JNA/SAO Krajina-held areas in late 1991 are highlighted in red | |
| Location | 45°22′18″N16°10′41″E / 45.3716399°N 16.1779308°E /45.3716399; 16.1779308 Novo Selo Glinsko,Croatia |
| Date | 3 and 16 October 1991 |
| Target | Croats |
Attack type | Mass killing |
| Deaths | 32 |
| Perpetrators | SAO Krajina forces |
TheNovo Selo Glinsko massacre was the mass murder ofCroat civilians in two separate massacres committed by Serb forces on 3 and 16 October 1991 in the village of Novo Selo Glinsko, near the town ofGlina.
Fighting in the area ofGlina and the wider area, betweenCroat andSAO Krajina forces, began almost immediately afterCroatia declared its independence fromYugoslavia on 26 June 1991. The first clashes began withOperation Stinger and the rebel Serb attack on the Glina police station. The conflict in the region ofBanovina escalated with the1991 Yugoslav campaign in Croatia and the region largely falling to the self-declaredSAO Krajina by the autumn of 1991. During this time, severalCroat towns and villages were attacked, occupied and ethnically cleansed of their non-Serb populations.[1]
On 3 October 1991,SAO Krajina paramilitary and territorial defense forces entered the village and committed their first massacre of theCroat inhabitants, killing 9Croat civilians.[2] Serb forces returned shortly after on the 16 October 1991 to kill the remainingCroat inhabitants.[2] The men and women were separated before being killed; the men were shot and the women were locked in the basement of a wooden house that was then fired upon and destroyed with aM80 Zolja rocket launcher, killing those inside. After the massacre, Serb forces burned and lootedCroat homes.[2]
The victims included 15 men and 17 women between 15 and 83 years of age, the youngest victim of the massacre was 15-year old Katica Šimanović.[3][4]
In 2015, Zagreb County State's Attorney's Office opened an investigation into the massacre, four members of the Serb Glina Territorial Defence have so far been arrested by Croatian authorities.