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    The aim of the project Unveiling personal memories on war and detention is to affirm personal memories of all interested witnesses of political events in Croatia and to preserve them from falling into oblivion.Read more

    The methodology which Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past uses in collecting personal memories is partially grounded in the basic methodological principles of the oral history method. It has been used since 1948, when the oral history method was accepted in the scientific community as a technique of documenting history and it enables Documenta, as a human rights organization working on the process of dealing...Read more

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Ivica Horvatić

Ivan Horvatić was born in 1946 in Glina. By vocation, he is a sanitary engineer and he spent his working life in the Sisak Medical Centre. His family comes from Novo Selo Glinsko, in which the Serb forces committed a war crime on December 16, 1991, killing 33 inhabitants of the village. His son, who was a fireman, was killed on September 11, 1991, at the age of 21, during a fire-fighting operation, following shelling and an explosion in a hotel. His father was killed in Novo Selo Glinsko during shelling. From 1993 to 1995 he acted as a volunteer in military medicine. He participated in Operation Storm. Shortly after the end of the war, in 1996, he found the remains of his father. In the area of Novo Selo Glinsko, 25 people are still reported missing. He is the head of the Association of Families of Dead Veterans.

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Family background Inter-ethnic relations Inter-ethnic relations in Glina and surroundings Religious customs National identity Suppressing the past Social system in Yugoslavia Tito Milošević's rise to power Establishment of a multiparty system in Croatia Referendum on independence First clashes in Petrinja Beginning of the War Human losses In exile in Sisak In the Croatian Army Operation Storm Return home Missing
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