Kozarska Dubica (Bosanska Dubica before) is situated on the right bank of the river Una, which divides the Republic of Srpska and Croatia. The left bank of the Una formed part of the Republic of Srpska Krajina until 4 August 1995, when the Croatian Army occupied that area.

Up to that time, Dubica and the surrounding villages were occasionally shelled from Croatia's territory.

On 18 September 1995, about 11 o'clock, members of the Croatian Army crossed the Una and entered the territory of the Republic of Srpska, in the Kozarska Dubica area. Croatian soldiers were wearing helmets on their heads and bullet-proof vests.

Members of the 2nd Guard Brigade "Thunders" and members of the l7th, 2nd and lst Home Guard Regiments also participated in this attack. Members of the 2nd Guard Brigade's Shock Unit called "'The Black Mambas" had a special role in the killing of civilians.

On that occasion, members of the Croatian Army were killing all the Serbs, civilians, whom they found on the route of their advance. The attack was directed toward the KNEŽOPOLJKA (TIK) factory, which was in operation at the time. They killed the largest number of civilians on the plateau in front of the KNEŽOPOLJKA factory.

Others:

1. Bakić Ostoja, from Kozarska Dubica, 72 Dušana Silnog,
2. Bobar Milja, from the village of Knežica, wounded while driving a bicycle,
3. 3. Bosančić Danijela, wounded in a warehouse in the quarter "Puhalo"
4. Brdar Predrag, from Kozarska Dubica, Prvomajska St. bb,
5. Gvozden Zoran, from Kozarska Dubica, 26 S. Jovanovraa St.,
6. Gvozden Marinko, from Kozarska Dubica, M. Antića St.,
7. Gligia Milan, from Jošika, Kozarska Dubica Municipality,
8. Danica Nada, from Kozarska Dubica, 7 M. Antića St., severely wounded and transported to the hospital in Prijedor,
9. Dragićevia Draginja, whose left hand was cut off by shrapnel,
10. Dugajlia Biljana, wounded in a warehouse in the quarter "Puhalo"
11. Djurić Mihajlo, Erom Knežica, Kozarska Dubica Municipality,
12. Kasapović Miloš, worker from Dubica, 68/5 Miroslava Antiaa St., born on 19 December 1949 in Draksenić, father Borko, who was treated for intlicted injuries at the hospital in Banja Luka and Belgrade for a month and a half (evidence: 727/96-44).
13. Kneževia Stevo, tinsmith, from Dubica, born in 1965, father Dragoljub, wounded in the head (evidence: 727/96-44).
14. Kondić Goran, wounded at his workplace in the doorman'sbooth of the KNEŽOPOLJKA factory,
15. Kos Mirko,
16. Krnjajić Dragan, wounded at his workplace in the KNEŽOPOLJKA factory, and was given first aid at the hospital in Prijedor afterwards,
17. Lazić Djuro, from Kozarska Dubica,69 Major Milan Tepić St.,
18. Latinović Radosava, from Medjuvodja, Kozarska Dubica Municipality,
19. Maksimović Ilija, from Medjedja, Kozarska Dubica Municipality,
20. Milanković Miroslavka, from the village of Vrioci, Kozarska Dubica Municipality, born on 18 August 1956 in the village of Vlaškovci, Kozarska Dubica Municipality, father Dušan. After she was wounded, Croatian soldiers took her across the Una. She was treated at the hospital in Petrinja for two weeks, and then incarcerated at Croatian detention camps until 16 February 1992 when she was exchanged (evidence: 727/96-41).
21. Milinović Miroslav, from the village of Johovo, Kozarska Dubica Municipality,
22. Milošević Slavica, wounded in a warehouse in the quarter "Puhalo",
23. Miroslav Milan, from K. Dubica,23 Kneza Mihajla St.,
24. Novaković Branko, from the village of Strigovo, Kozarska Dubica Municipality,
25. Rodić Mirko, farmer, from the village of Novoselci, Dubica Municipality, born on 20 March 1966 in Bosanska Dubica, father Vuja, treated at the hospitals in Prijedor and Belgrade for the leg injury (evidence: 727/96-25).
26. Rožić Stana, clerk, from Vrioci, Kozarska Dubica Mnicipality, born on 16 April 1958 in Banja Luka, father Svetko, was wounded and treated for ten days at the hospitals in Prijedor and Banja Luka (evidence: 727/96-29).
27. Ručanov Milan, from Kozarska Dubica, bb Paje Grbića St.,
28. Slijepčević Draško, from Kozarska Dubica,27 Trebinjska St.,
29. Stanić Nedeljko, from Kozarska Dubica,29 Hajduk Veljkova St.,
30. Stanojević Milan, from the village of Koturovi, Kozarska Dubica Municipality,
31. Stojaković Brane, from the village of Dizdarlije, Kozarska Dubica Municipality,
32. Suzić Radenko, from Kozarska Dubica,25 Kneza Miloša St.,
33. Tepić Ilija, from Kozarska Dubica, bb Cara Lazara St.,
34. Tepić Milutin, from Kozarska Dubica,19 Kirila HadžIća St.,
35. Tepić Mirko, from Kozarska Dubica,14 Dušana Silnog St.,
36. Ćibić Milan, from the village of Špilje,
37. Ševo Predrag, from Kozarska Dubica,10 Petra Pecije St.
38. Štrbac Miroslav, from the village of Hadžibair, Kozarska Dubica Municipality,

Major destruction of the town and its surroundings occurred during the Croatian Army’s attack on Kozarska Dubica on 18 September 1995.

- in the VIDOVDANSKA St. - the ground-floor house No. 6 was hit.

- in the KNEZA MIHAJLA St. - the ground-floor houses Nos. 20 and 22 were hit.

- in the DJURDJEVDANSKA St. - the ground-floor house No. 8 was hit.

- in the KOSOVSKIH JUNAKA St. - the family house at No. 7 was hit.

- in the UGLJEŠA MILAIVOVIĆ St. - the Nikolić's family house was hit.

- in the NIKOLA PAŠIĆ Sq. - Mirko Mijalković's house was severely damaged.

- in the KNEŽOPOLJSKA St. - private houses were hit.

- in the MILAlNA TEPIĆA St. - the pump station and the building No. 29 were hit.

- in the CARA LAZARA St. - Avdija Palić's house was hit.

- in the KNINSKA St. - the house of Borislav Pekić was hit.

- in the DAVIDOV TRG St. - the Ćustićes' house was hit.

- in the DUŠANA SILNOG St. - the house of Pepa Farago was hit.

- The elementary school "SVETI SAVA"

- The school centre "NIKOLA TESLA"

- The "SIPAD" furniture factory

- The SPORTS HALL - hit and damaged

- The GREEN MARKET - 8 shells fell, damaging several facilities at the market

- The ARSENIĆS' PETROL STATION

- The quarter PUHALO - 6 residential buildings were hit and damaged

- The village of MEDJUVODJE - the house of Radoslav Latinović

- Damaged cars - "Jugo 55", licence plates PD 771-58; "Zastava 101" PD 101-83;

According to the estimates of the investigating team of the First -instance court, the town was shelled with some 4,000 artillery grenades.

4.1. The witness 727/96-20, born in 1938, on the reserve forces of the army of the Republica Srpska, testified:

...I and Svetozar Reljić were ambushed by Croatian soldiers who captured us and took us by boat over the Una to the village of Baein in the Hrvatska Dubica area. They tied us immediately, and then started to beat us and trampled on us.

These Croatian soldiers were wearing markings "The Black Mambas" and they took us to the Forestry Office in Hrvatska Dubica. In front of that building they beat us so that I fainted. "In the Forestry Office they beat us horrendously again and then took us to Josip Batinović, to whom we did not want to tell where our positions were and then he said "Take them out and do with them whatever you want". After that, they tied us with a rope in such a manner that the rope went under our necks, along our backs tying it around our legs and hands, so if we moved our legs or hands, the rope would tighten around our necks. They called it the "death rope".

After that, they set on fire some plastic material above our heads so it melted and that hot material fell on our heads and shoulders and went down our arms and other parts of our bodies. As they did it, Croatian soldiers laughed while we were in terrible pain.

Then they ordered us to stretch our hands for them to hit them with tips of knives and make notches, and after that they cut me across the forehead. They also cut me around the ears, on the head and back. They jumped on me in their boots as we lay there and I sustained 7 broken ribs.

They asked me and Svetozar whetherwe could swim, and when we told them we could not they told us that we would swim in the Una.

Then the "death rope" strangled Svetozar so they ordered me to take his body in a wheel-barrow to the Una.

When we reached the Una, I managed to jump in the water while they were firing after me and hit me in the leg. I somehow managed to save myself. I managed to swim across the Una and was given first aid at the Community Health Centre in Dubica, and later spent a while in hospital.

I have told only a part of what I have been through since 18 September, around 4 p.m. when I was captured until the early morning of the next day. They put a knife near my eye several times and wanted to gouge it. Even today, when I remember this, I relive all these memories and then I cannot sleep.

At one point, they threatened me and Svetozar that they would bring us a doctor who would inject some poison in our veins and then we would say all the things that we did not want to say.

They even sent a soldier to find that doctor, but I suppose did not find him...

...I happened to be near the factory KNEŽOPOLJKA in Dubica, on 18 September 1995. When they saw my car, Croatian soldiers started to fire on me. My car was completely riddled by bullets.

Croatian soldiers were wearing helmets and they had "The Black Mambas" markings on their sleeves.

My cousin Ranko Tubić was killed in that attack and I also saw many bodies of other killed Serbs. A large number of elderly men and women were killed, including Djoko Zavišić, Slobodan Ćirić, Dragan Slijepac, Milorad Bukva, etc.

After the Croatian Army withdrew, there were 9 bodies left of Croatian soldiers killed in action having personal documents on them. Among them there was also Josip Macan who used to be Josip Paragä s personal driver, and Franjo Tudjman himselfes interested in the return of his body. Dražen Pajsera, a personal driver of Nikica Valentić, the Croatian Prime Minister, was also killed.

I saw bodies of killed Serbs and noted that the majority of them were strangled by some sort of wire and that they were massacred. I also saw a body of a boy who could not be older than 15. Beside him were his eyes, gouged out. I do not know his name...

4.3. The witness 725/96-7, who was born in Dubica 1963, where she lived, testified:

...The Croatian Army attacked Dubica on 18 September 1995 after 11 o'clock. I was in my house. My daughters, aged 4 and 7, were with me. Together with my daughters there were also the Milan Crljenica's daughters, younger one aged 8 and the elder aged 9.

Croatian soldiers crossed the Una. They were wearing masks and their faces were painted. On the left sleeve of their uniforms they wore "The Black Mambas" markings.

As soon as they arrived, these soldiers told me and my children and the children of the neighbour Milan Crljenica to lie down on the grass in front of the house. Then Milan Crljenica appeared and he was also ordered by Croatian soldiers to lie down.

After that, one of the soldiers shot Milan in the head several times, before his children who were in his immediate proximity. After killing Milan, these soldiers ordered me to take my and Milan's daughters across the street to Desa Pralica's house. There we were locked in one room and ordered to lie down on the floor and not to get up.

During our stay in that house, the elder daughter of Milan Crljenica asked me whether Croatian soldiers would kill us and what would happen if they do. I saw that the children were terribly frightened. I tried to explain to her that hopefully we would not be killed.

We spent a whole day and a whole night in that house, and tomorrow Croatian soldiers withdrew.

There were also two women among the Croatian soldiers wearing "The Black Mambas" uniforms.

In the territory of Dubica, Croatian soldiers were killing women and elderly people as well. That is how Djordje Zavišić, Djuka Mataruga, Dragan Budimir, Ranko Šipka, Aleska Šuvak, Dragan Slijepac, Radovan Trubac, Rade Stegić, Milan Dabić and others were killed...

...I was in Kozarska Dubica on 18 September 1995 when Croatian soldiers attacked the area of Dubica, in the territory of the Republic of Srpska, from the left bank of the Una, in the territory of Croatia.

Members of the Croatian Army directed their attack toward the factory KNEŽOPOLJKA in which the first shift was working and in which there were some 370-400 workers. Since we were informed that there were many wounded people, I took a van with a visible Red Cross markings and went to the other side of the factory to help transport the wounded. I spotted an elderly man named Tepić who was wounded and we took him in the van and went on. Then I saw Croatian soldiers who were some 30 ms away from me. they opened fierce fire from infantry weapons on the vehicle. Our vehicle was incapacitated for further driving.

I saw a lot of killed civilians who were in the immediate proximity of the factory KNEŽOPOLJKA, but I could not reach their bodies.

The following day, when the Croatian Army withdrew I learned that they had killed, as they advanced all civilians, elderly men and women who were in their houses at the time. I learned that about 45 civilians were killed. Among them were Mile Babić, Rade Štegić, Radovan Trubac, :Manda Ćibić, Djuro Dragaš, Branislav Vukmirović, Aleksa Šuvak and others.

In this attack a large number of residential buildings, factory machine rooms, as well as the Secondary School "Nikola Tesla".

Members of the Croatian Army also wounded some 70 civilians in Dubica...

...On 18 September 199_ I was at my home in Kozarska Dubica. Around 11 o'clock one could hear strong artillery fire and several grenades fell in the vicinity of my house, so I hid in the cellar. After some time, Croatian soldiers appeared at the cellar door, pointed their guns at me and ordered me to come out of the cellar.1'hen some thirty Croatian soldiers surrounded me. They asked me where my husband and children were and I told them that I had only a daughter and a son-in-law and that they were in Germany, so Croatian soldiers asked for money. They threatened to kill me unless I gave them the money, and then they entered the house and searched it, cursing my Serbian and my Chetnik mother.

At one point, I saw a men on the motorbike coming down the street and Croatian soldiers stopped him. When he came near them they shot and killed him. Later on, I learned that that was Dragan Budimir.

After Croatian soldiers were expelled in the course of the night to the other bank of the Una, I saw bodies of killed Pera Ćibić and his in-law Draginja Nikoletia, as well as those of Milka and Anka Crljenica near my house. There were other bodies on the road, near the factory KNEŽOPOIJKA...

.. My husband Ranko Grbić, born in 1946, was captured by members of the Croatian Army, on 12 September 1995, as a member of the reserve force of the army of the Republika Srpska, when they attacked the area of Kozarska Dubica. My husband was captured and taken to Croatia's territory.

I was informed through the Red Cross that he was alive and was currently, in the Lora camp in Split...

...On September 1995, around 11 o'clock, I was going from Kozarska Dubica back to my village when the terrible shooting started. As I came across the KNEŽOPOLJKA factory, I sighted several soldiers who had helmets on their heads and bullet-proof vests. They stopped me and only then did I realise that they were Croatian soldiers. I noticed the "Black Mambas" markings on their sleeves. They ordered me to come with them and brought me into some woman's house, where I was until the Croatian Army was expelled.

When the Croatian soldiers took me with them I passed by burning cars and on that occasion I saw in one vehicle killed Milorad Buha whom I knew from before.

Not far away, there were 10 -15 bodies of people killed. I also spotted one decapitated body.

As we were going past the killed, the Croatian soldiers cursed their Serbian mother and said that all Serbs would be killed in that way...

...I was among the last ones to leave the factory KNEŽOPOLJKA. On that occasion, Croatian soldiers killed Djura Pralica and Mladjen Zakić.

4.9. The witness 272/96-16, worker of the KNEŽOPOLJKA factory, testified:

...I was at my workplace when the Croatian Army attacked Kozarska Dubica on 18 September 1995. We broke through the wire fence of the KNEŽOPOLJKA factory as Croatian soldiers were entering the factory through the main gate.

At one point, Croatian soldiers were some 50 ms away from me and then I saw them kill Djura Pralica...

4.10. The witness 727/96-35, member of the police force in Kozarska Dubica, testified:

...On 18 September 1995 I was in the police station when, around 11 o'clock, the Croatian Army launched an attack on the area of Kozarska Dubica, from the left bank of the Una.

I went in the direction of the KNEŽOPOLJKA factory, in order to go out what it was about and then I saw that the attack was directed towards this very factory. I also saw civilians who were leaving their houses and fleeing, and cars on fire near the Factory.

At the time of the Croatian Army's attack, some 350 to 400 workers were at their workplaces. They were leaving the factory on the rear side, as they broke the wire fence.

I was infromed that this attack was carried out by members of the 2nd Guard Brigade of the Croatian Army, wearing markings "The Black Mambas". As they were withdrawing, they left behind 9 bodies of their killed soldiers. The IDs with the exact particulars of those soldiers were found on them. The topographic map with the Croatian Army's attack direction drawn in the map was also found on them. On one map it was written "Action Drina 1995."...

4.11. The witness 727/96-31 stated:

...My brother Dušan Zgonjanin was in his car, make "Renault", together with Rade Stegia, Radovan Trubarac, Mile Babia and Branislav Vukumirović, and he was driving in the direction of the KNEŽOPOLJKA factory, where they ran into members of the Croatian Army who opened fire on my brother's vehicle, and killed all five of them. The Stegić's body was found bullet-riddled in the car, and the bodies of the other four were found nearby. My conclusion is that they were ordered by Croatian soldiers to get out of the car and then they killed them...

4.12. The witness 727/96-5 stated:

...When on 18 September 1995 we heard shooting, I met T.M. and we drove in his car along the Milana Tepića street, in order to establish what was going on.

When we were about 30 ms away from the gate of the KNEŽOPOLJKA factory, I noticed a group of soldiers and since we concluded that they were Croatian soldiers, T.M. suddenly turned the car in the opposite direction. Then soldiers opened fire on us and wounded me in the head.

But, despite that, after I received first aid we organised the front line, assisted by the police, and managed to push Croatian soldiers who had entered the town near the factory KNEŽOPOLJKA back over the Una.

I noticed that we were dealing with very well trained and heavily armed soldiers.

Tomorrow we found a large number of killed civilians at the point where Croatian soldiers crossed the Una...

...Around 11 o'clock, the Croatian Army opened heavy artillery fire on Dubica and plants of the KNEŽOPOLJKA factory from the left bank of the Una. At one point, they opened fire on on the centre of the town as well as on the villages in its vicinity and the Croatian Army advanced in the direction of the KNEŽOPOLJKA factory.

When we in the factory noticed that, we broke the fence for the workers to get out. We saw that Croatian soldiers were killing civilians who happened to be on the route of their advance.

When Miloš Budimir came on his motorbike, he was killed on the spot by Croatian soldiers. Then Djuro Pralica came by, and he was killed as well...