Međeđa (Kozarska Dubica)

Međeđa is a village in the municipality of Kozarska Dubica, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] Village is mostly inhabited with Serbs.

Međeđa
Village
Međeđa
Coordinates: 45°12′16″N 16°57′54″E
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina
Republic Republika Srpska
MunicipalityKozarska Dubica
Population
 (2013)
 • Total808
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Notable people

History

World War II

Mass grave of Ustaše victims from Jasenovac concentration camp, mostly children, was located on the estate of Lončar family in Međeđa.[2] After the decision of SFR Yugoslavian government from 1956, the mass grave was backfilled to make space for Sava river walls.[2]

In the villages: Drakulić, Demirovac and Međeđa, Ustaše enjoined the young Serbian girls to "pull their skirts up, and pricked them between the legs".[3]


From the Prijedor canton village of Međeđa, and many other neighbour villages, Ustaše soldiers required inhabitants to prepare themselves for the departure in 10 minutes. When the 8.000 people came, they expelled them from their villages to the Hrvatska Dubica and put them on some field near the railway station, which had a boundary of barbed wire. Some of them were instantly killed (by fusillade), the other one were sent to concentration camps, and people who were lucky to stay alive were, after long time, sent to Serbia.[4][5]

gollark: I mean that they insist I need cotton shirts (because natural → good somehow?!) and also have to wear ironed clothes?
gollark: Well, they seem to think that I should wear excessively fancy clothes (beyond the somewhat-fancy-clothes requirement of my school dress code) or people will judge me for it somehow?
gollark: I care somewhat about appearance, but your comment reminds me very much of the whole thing my parents have with looking "smart".
gollark: Surely nobody is going around licking windows *now*.
gollark: · · ·

References
  1. Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.
  2. "4. Међународна конференција о Јасеновцу (мај 2007) (20. година од стварања Републике Српске)" (in Serbian). Радио-телевизија Републике Српске. 22 April 2012. Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
  3. Template:HarvnСтрањаковић
  4. Јованка Марчетић, домаћица из Приједора у Београду, 1. октобра 1942. године (К)
  5. Највећи злочини садашњице : (патње и страдање српског народа у Независној Држави Хрватској од 1941-1945), Др. Драгослав Страњаковић, Горњи Милановац Дечје новине (1991). стр. 119
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