Dalj massacre
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Dalj killings and Dalj massacre
Dalj is a small village in East-Slavonija region in Croatia situated on the Danube river .
At the early stage of fighting thousands of Croat and non-Serb civlians fled from villages of Erdut, Dalj and Aljmas.
In August 1991, Serb forces lead by notoriuos war criminal Arkan arrested Croat civilians who stayed in their homes and kept them in a detention facility in the police building in Dalj. Eleven of them were shot imidiatly and their bodies were buried in a mass grave in the village of Celija.
On 4 October 1991, Serb paramilitaries with some Serb officials entered the detention facility in the police building in Dalj and shot 28 Croat civilian detainees. The bodies of the victims were then taken from the building and dumped into the nearby Danube River.
At least 135 other Croat and non-Serb civilians were killed in this region up until May 1992.
Serbian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic was also indited for these crimes.
