The Medari massacre was the mass murder of 22

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civilians on 1 May 1995 by members of the

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(HV) during

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. On 1 May 1995, according to Zagreb-based NGO

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and HHO, the Croatian Army killed 22 civilians, including 11 women and three children, in the village of Medari near

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in western

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. Two sisters, Radmila and Mirjana Vukovic survived the massacre by chance because they went to high school in a nearby town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Their father, mother and seven-year-old sister were killed that day. As of 2006, no criminal charges were filed in relation to the event.

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