Gornja Močila is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

History

With the withdrawal of the Italians, the chances of a successful Serb rebellion increased. Shortly after the Drvar uprising, Božidar Cerovski, director of the Directorate of the Ustaša Police, arrived in

Slunj Slunj is a town in the mountainous part of Central Croatia, located along the important North-South route to the Adriatic Sea between Karlovac and Plitvice Lakes National Park, on the meeting of the rivers Korana and Slunjčica. Slunj has a popu ...

, on the evening of 29 July 1941, along with an undetermined number of Ustaše from

Zagreb Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the ...

for the removal of "undesirable elements". In the morning of the 30th, they broke up into several groups and walked through Serb inhabitted settlements with lists of such individuals, including in Močila, detaining them and transporting them to

Oštarski Stanovi Oštarski Stanovi is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D1 highway. History In 1941, Dragan Božičević was designated as its Ustaša ''zbirnik''. With the withdrawal of the Italians, the chances of a successful Serb rebellion incre ...

, where they were executed on the order of Cerovski.

Demographics

Infrastructure

In 1913, there were 7 gendarmeries in Slunj kotar: Cetin-grad, Gornja Močila,

Nova Kršlja Nova Kršlja is a village in Croatia. History In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the gendarmerie of the Drežnik Grad ''općina'' was not in Drežnik but in Nova Kršlja, farther away from Drežnik than the gendarmerie of the Rakovica ''općina''. T ...

, Primišlje, Rakovica,

and

Veljun Veljun is a village in Croatia, under the Slunj township, in Karlovac County. Demographics In 1890, the ''obćina'' of Veljun (court at Veljun), with an area of , belonged to the ''kotar'' of Slunj (Slunj court and electoral district) in the ' ...

References

Populated places in Karlovac County {{Karlovac-geo-stub