Hrvatska Dubica
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Hrvatska Dubica is a village and a municipality in central Croatia in the Sisak-Moslavina county. It is located on the northern bank of the river Una, east of Hrvatska Kostajnica and southwest of Jasenovac and Novska. The municipality of Hrvatska Dubica has a population of 2,341 (2001 census), 90.13% (2110) which are Croats and 6.49% (152) which are Serbs. The population of Dubica itself is 987, with the rest distributed in the nearby villages of Baćin, Donji Cerovljani, Gornji Cerovljani, Slabinja, and Živaja.
The town of Bosanska Dubica lies to the south of the municipality, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
[edit] Recent history
During the Croatian War of Independence, Dubica was located in the area contested by the Serbian rebels. Most of the civilians fled the area during the attacks of the Serbian forces that started in September 1991. These forces were controlled by Milan Martić, and consisted of units of Yugoslav People's Army, Territorial Defence, and the so-called Militia of SAO Krajina. Around October 7, 1991, the Serbian forces took control of the entire wider area of Kostajnica.
Around 120 Croatian civilians, mostly elderly people and women, were left in the adjactent villages of Dubica, Cerovljani and Baćin. In the morning of October 20, 1991, the Serbian forces captured 53 civilians in Dubica and held them in the fire department building. During the day and the following night, ten of them were released on the basis that they were Serbs, or had connections with Serbs.
On the following day, October 21, 1991, the paramilitaries took the remaining 43 people to a location near the village of Baćin. At least thirteen other non-Serb civilians were brought to the same spot from Baćin and Cerovljani. All 56 civilians were then shot there. Around the same time, the Serbian forces also removed another 30 civilians from Baćin and 24 from Dubica and Cerovljani, and killed them at an unknown location.
The events were described by witnesses at the trial of Slobodan Milošević and others at the ICTY.
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