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The Gospić massacre was an incident that took place between 16 October-18 October 1991 in the town of Gospić, a city in the district of Lika in Croatia. Around 100-120 local Serbs were murdered by members of a Croatian paramilitary unit. The commander of the unit, Mirko Norac, was convicted in 2003 along with four other people for his involvement in the massacre, which was one of the worst incidents of its kind on the Croatian side during the Croatian War of Independence.
On 6 October 1991, members of the local Croatian territorial defence force attended a meeting called by Tihomir Orešković, the secretary of the Lika district crisis headquarters. The attendees agreed to draw up a list of Serbs who had returned to Gospić, ostensibly to ensure that none were hostile to the Croatian government. However, as a subsequent war crimes trial later determined, the list was actually used to target Serb community leaders in a systematic mass killing. It has been suggested that the trigger for the killings was the massacre by Serbs of 30 Croatian civilians were in a nearby village and the destruction of Gospić's Roman Catholic Church. [1]
The killings were carried out by the Croatian Interior Ministry's First Zagreb Special Unit, nicknamed "Autumn Rains". It was under the authority of Mirko Norac, the commander of Interior Ministry forces in the area, and ultimately was answerable to Interior Minister Ivan Vekić. [2] Between 16 October and 18 October, the unit rounded up local Serbs in Gospić and the nearby towns of Karlobag, Pazarište and Lipova Glavica, [3] pulling them out of communal bomb shelters and loading them onto military trucks. They were taken away and killed in the outlying areas before their bodies were disposed of.
According to a former member of the unit, Miroslav Bajramović,
"Our group executed between 90 and 100 people in less than a month there ... The order for Gospić was: "ethnically cleanse." So we killed the directors of the post office and the hospital, restaurant owners, and other assorted Serbs. The killing was done by shooting at point-blank range, since we did not have much time. I repeat, orders from above were to reduce the percentage of Serbs in Gospić."
It was later determined by a Croatian court that Norac had personally killed a woman during an execution of civilians at Pazarište and, with Orešković, had ordered the killing of at least ten civilians in Pazarište.
Aber mich anpöbeln, ich hätte keine Ahnung von der Krajina... Na ja, lieber keine Ahnung von der Krajina als kein Deutsch können. 
