Monday marks 22 years since Croatia attacked Serb areas in W. Slavonia

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Monday marks 22 years since the Croatian forces' aggression against Serb-populated areas in Western Slavonia, i.e., the start of Operation Bljesak ("flash").

During the subsequent two days in May 1995, 283 ethnic Serbs were either killed or went missing, including 55 women and 11 children.

Out of the total number, the fate of 127 victims has so far been determined, while 156 remain listed as missing - 65 of them civilians, including 27 women.

Croatians collected the bodies of the victims after the operation and buried them in graves mostly marked as "unknown."

Over the past five years, the remains of 145 people have been exhumed from mass and individual graves, 86 of whom have been identified.

According to the Documentation and Information Center Veritas, some 1,450 members of the Serb Army of Krajina were captured, mostly with the...