On February 25, 1992, in Daruvar, a member of the Croatian Army, then twenty-year-old Jo\u017eica Mudri, liquidated the four-member Serbian family Radosavljevi\u0107: Rade (36), his wife Jovanka (32) and their minor sons Dejan (14) and Nenad (10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That day, around 7:15 p.m., Jo\u017eica Mudri came to the Radosavljevi\u0107 home wearing a military police uniform and, during a several-hour conversation with the homeowner, motivated by the fact that the Radosavljevi\u0107 family were of Serbian nationality, took a pistol out of its holster and from close range fired 11 bullets at them, shooting them in the head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since Dejan was still showing signs of life after the shooting, Mudri inflicted eight additional stab wounds to his chest and abdomen with a kitchen knife. He then arranged the bodies of the dead Radosavljevi\u0107 family members on the dining room floor next to one another and planted plastic explosives on them, which caused their dismemberment and damage to the entire house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After that monstrous act, the killer stole a video recorder and a remote control from the Radosavljevi\u0107 home and gave them as a gift to his girlfriend Tajana Biljan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a somewhat shortened version of the operative part of the final judgment of the District Court in Bjelovar, No. K-153\/52 of January 7, 1994, by which the killer was found guilty of four counts of murder, one serious offense against public safety and one count of theft, for which he was sentenced to a unified sentence of thirteen years in prison, which the Supreme Court increased to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although during the criminal proceedings the killer claimed that he decided to liquidate the Radosavljevi\u0107 family after his commander Miroslav Guberovi\u0107 told him in a caf\u00e9, which was also visited by Rade Radosavljevi\u0107, whom the killer knew because they worked at the same company, \u201cthat tonight he must liquidate that scum,\u201d and for that purpose put a car at his disposal and assigned a member of their unit, Miroslav Moulis, to show him Rade\u2019s house, only Jo\u017eica Mudri was charged and convicted for this crime, and that for ordinary criminal offenses but not for a war crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Croatian courts rejected the compensation claims of the relatives of the murdered Radosavljevi\u0107 family against the Republic of Croatia, with the explanation that the killer committed the act outside of working hours and with a trophy weapon and that \u201cthe harmful act is in no way connected with the performance of military service.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The killer was released from prison long ago and today lives in Daruvar as a respected citizen and a \u201cdistinguished participant in the Homeland War.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to the liquidation of the four-member Kozba\u0161i\u0107 family in Petrinja in November 1991, the three-member Zec family in Zagreb in December 1991, the four-member \u010cengi\u0107 family in Ervenik near Knin in January 1992 and the four-member Oluji\u0107 family from Cerna near \u017dupanja in February 1992, the murder of the Radosavljevi\u0107 family from Daruvar ranks among the most monstrous liquidations of families in the war of the nineties because of their ethnic affiliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The spouses in the aforementioned families were of mixed Croatian-Serbian composition, except for the Radosavljevi\u0107 family in which both spouses were of Serbian nationality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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