Željko Somborac

Željko Somborac was born in 1955 in Lovas, in Syrmia. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s, the companies that he and his wife were working for went into bankruptcy and they both became unemployed. At the time of the attack on Lovas, on 10th of October, 1991, he was with his family in Lovas. During the attack, twenty-two civilians were killed in their houses or back yards, and by the 18th of October another twenty-three people were killed in improvised prisons.
Željko Samoborac was one of the Croats who remained in Lovas, subject to a work obligation, and he suffered mistreatment and abuse. He was one of the civilians of Croatian nationality who, on 18th of October, were made to act as a human shield and walk through a mine field, which resulted in the deaths of twenty-two people. He spent the entire period of SAO Krajina in Lovas and he witnessed the events there. He was one of the witnesses at the High Court in Belgrade during the trial for war crimes committed in Lovas.