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The murder of the Zec family occurred in Zagreb, Croatia on 7 December 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence, when a squad of five Croatian militiamen shot dead three members of an ethnic Serb family: Mihajlo Zec, his wife Marija and their 12-year-old daughter, Aleksandra. The murderers were apprehended, but released after a controversial court decision in 1992. After a long period of apparent negligence and cover-up, the Zec family murder was never addressed by the Croatian legal system, but the government agreed to compensate the surviving family members in a 2004 court settlement. The main perpetrators of this murder were given prison sentences on separate crimes. ==Murder== In the evening around 11:00pm on 7 December 1991, in the Zec family home near Zagreb, Croatia, a group of five people: Siniša Rimac, Munib Suljić, Igor Mikola, Nebojša Hodak and Suzana Živanović, invaded the premises with the intention to arrest Mihajlo Zec, a butcher by profession and the father of the family, due to his alleged links with rebel Krajina Serbs. Four of the men were members of Tomislav Merčep's paramilitary unit, reserve units of the Croatian Ministry of Internal Affairs. In a later leak of President Tuđman's transcripts, Merčep was quoted in 1995 as telling Tuđman the murder was ordered by Zvonimir Trusić, who in turn was, according to Merčep, a subordinated of then Minister of Foreign Affairs Zvonimir Šeparović and then-Minister of the Interior Ivan Vekić. This testimony was never investigated by a court.〔 Mihajlo Zec ran out on the street, and tried to escape, but Siniša Rimac shot him from a distance of thirty meters. After that, they tied up his wife and daughter, Marija and Aleksandra, threw them into a van with no license plates and drove to the mountain lodge on the Medvednica mountain. Once on Sljeme, Aleksandra and Marija were killed and dumped into a pit of garbage. Aleksandra's sister Gordana and brother Dušan managed to survive by hiding around the house, and fled to their grandmother's home in Banja Luka. Subsequent investigations purport that Rimac allegedly did not want Aleksandra to be killed, but the others opposed any mercy as she was a witness. The girl was shot in the head with an automatic Heckler & Koch rifle, by Munib Suljić.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of the Zec family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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