Milica Miladinović
Milica Miladinović was born in 1951 near to Kruševac, in Serbia. She moved to Croatia in 1972, after being married. Her husband was an officer in the JNA [Yugoslav National Army]. At the beginning of the war, in August 1991, he found himself stuck in the Maršal Tito military barracks in Zagreb, whilst Milica got fired from her job working in a shop. At the time, the family was receiving regular threats and in the autumn of 1991 they were brutally evicted from the apartment they were living in, in Zagreb. Following the eviction, they became refugees. They lived in Belgrade for four years, and later in Banja Luka. In 1995, the use of the weekend house that they owned in Hrvatsko Zagorje was officially given to a Croatian war defender. Upon moving into the house, he made numerous changes to it, including the construction of an annex. In 2000, Milica returned to Croatia and she submitted a request for the restitution of her property. In 2001 she brought a civil suit to have the house in Zagorje returned to them, and she won the case. However, since no entry of judgement followed the ruling, she did not succeed in entering her property. In 2005, the state attorney started an action against the occupier of Milica Miladinović's house, but the person in question stubbornly managed to postpone the eviction for years. More so, the he himself brought an action against Milica Miladinović, asking for 300 000 Kuna for the annex that he had constructed on her house. In 2009 Milica lost the case and was ordered to pay 300 000 Kuna. In the end, he lost the case and was evicted from Milica Miladinović's house, but left the property so devastated that the court expert deemed it completely uninhabitable. Milica Miladinović continued her legal battle with the state, asking to be granted an exchange of property, ie. the singing of contract on the basis of which she would get a flat to use in Zagreb, in exchange for her devastated property in Hrvatsko Zagorje. In the meantime, she lives on social security, as a tenant in Zagreb.