The Danish soldiers from the UN, stationed in Croatia during the Storm, did not react when a large number of people in camouflage uniforms killed nine handicapped persons of Serbian nationality, who hid from the war in the school in Dvor na Una, in front of their eyes in 1995, she reported. the Danish television BT, and the Croatian internet portal indeks.hr
Danish media call that case a dark chapter in the Danish history of warfare, a horror that remained unexplained, and which Danish television is following after the Hague verdict against Croatian generals for crimes committed after the Storm.
The soldiers, as stated, saw that the perpetrators lined up nine mentally and physically handicapped people next to each other, and then killed them.
BT reported that the executions were carried out in full view of 200 Danish soldiers in full gear, who had several opportunities to intervene against the 12 perpetrators, who killed with hand grenades and pistols in front of passive Danes who were simply ordered to watch.
Neither in the text nor in the video of the Danish television does it say who the perpetrators are.
The liquidations took place on August 8, 1995 in Dvor na Una, so immediately after the end of the Storm.
Around 14.25:30 p.m., a platoon of 12 Danish soldiers saw 30 people walking along the road near the school in the abandoned town. Two Danish soldiers were stationed on the roof of the school, two more in a bunker nearby, and XNUMX soldiers were west of the school.
The soldiers, as stated, saw that the perpetrators lined up nine mentally and physically handicapped people next to each other, and then killed them.
The slaughter, as stated, lasted less than 15 minutes.
Soldiers could react
In the reconstruction, BT showed that the Danish soldiers had several opportunities to intervene. According to Jan Well Dorff, then a senior sergeant, the Danes could have killed the perpetrators.
The soldiers informed the commander of the nearby UN camp, General Jorgen Kold, about the massacre, but instead of being ordered to intervene, they were ordered to observe.
Kold told BT that 16 years later he does not want to participate in the debate about whether or not something could have been prevented, while former camp sergeant Dipon Sorensen said that the people of the camp were very upset after the event because of what happened. happened.
"A lot of people were angry because nothing was done," Sorensen said.
Retired general Poul Borhum, who shortly after the massacre took over the command at Dvor na Una, said that he did not understand the actions of the Danes.
"If I had been there, I would have ordered the soldiers to fire warning shots through the windows, to make the perpetrators stop," Borhum said.
Indeks.hr points out that members of all three armies - Serbian, Croatian and Bosniak - were in the area of Banija at that time.
Undoubtedly, crimes of the worst kind were committed, but the former president of HHO Žarko Puhovski told Indeks.hr that at the time of the initiation of the investigation into the crimes after the Storm in that area, there were serious doubts that the crimes against Serbian civilians in the Dvor were committed by members of the Serbian Army of Krajina, but and the Serbian army that helped them in that.
Columns of Serbian refugees leaving the Banija area were attacked by units of the Army of BiH "Hamze" and units of the Second Guards Brigade of the Croatian Army, i.e. "Black Mamba", as well as members of the Corps of Special Units of the SVK, who are in a panic retreat with armored vehicles towards the part of BiH controlled by the Serbs, literally ran over a part of the convoy in which civilians, their compatriots, were fleeing, in that area, writes index.hr and concludes that the crimes in the Palace on Una were never investigated or prosecuted.
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