The Sisak County Prosecutor's Office has said that it has requested a police investigation into a grave war crime committed in Dvor in 1995, but that the identity of the perpetrators, who at the time killed a man and his wife and ten mentally handicapped people, is still not known.
The Sisak County police department in September 2006 submitted to the local prosecutor's office a report on a war crime against civilians committed by unknown perpetrators, believed to be members of Croatian Serb paramilitary units, who on 8 August 1995, while withdrawing from Dvor, killed a man and his wife and ten mentally handicapped people accommodated in a local primary school. The victims were previously brought to the school from Petrinja, according to a statement published on the web site of the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor (DORH).
The police have so far interviewed a large number of people in the investigation into the crime.
A request has been submitted to search the data base of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for possible information on the victims' identity and the identity of the perpetrators, DORH said.
The Sisak County Prosecutor's Office has not yet received relevant documentation regarding the case, DORH said, adding that the case was given priority over other cases due to its gravity.
