USTASHA MASSACRE OF SERBS IN SLAVONIA

BIJELJINA, JANUARY 12 /SRNA/ – Members of the Ustasha from Podravska Slatina and other parts of Slavonia killed 200 Serb men from the village of Kometnik and the nearby hamlet of Dobrić, near Voćin, on January 13 and 14, 1942.

This massacre represents one of the earliest mass crimes committed by the Ustasha against the entire population of a village in Slavonia. At the scene, in the village of Kometnik, 28 residents were killed, while the remaining inhabitants were deported from the village. Men from Kometnik and Dobrić, 174 from the former and 32 from the latter, were taken to an improvised prison in Voćin, while women and children /reportedly numbering around 190/ were taken to Zdenci, a village between Podravska Slatina and Našice, where they were isolated in a temporary camp. In the basement of the Voćin prison, 25 detainees suffocated due to a lack of air, while the remaining prisoners were shot dead with rifles on January 14, 1942.