Dvorac Kerestinec, Kerestinec, Republic of Croatia

From December 1991 to May 1992, the Dvorac Kerestinec building was used as a detention site for Serbs and Croats who were brought there mostly after the closure of the detention facility in Gajeva Street in Zagreb. At Dvorac Kerestinec (the Kerestinec Prisoner of War Accommodation, as the camp was called), prisoners were subjected to daily abuse, torture, injuries, rape, sexual abuse and mutilation. These were mostly people who had not participated in any military operations, but were arrested in Croatian cities, especially in Sisak, on suspicion of having collaborated with and aided the “enemy army”. Serb women were subjected to rape and injuries in a separate female wing. The facility was initially run by the Croatian National Guard (Zbor narodne garde, ZNG), and from 1992 it was used by the military police.

In November 2011, the Zagreb State Attorney’s Office raised an indictment against Stjepan Klarić, Dražen Pavlović, Viktor Ivančin, Željko Živec and Goran Štrukelj, as members of HV, on suspicion of having committed war crimes against prisoners of war.
The retrial of the case started in February 2015. The judgement for war crimes in Dvorac Kerestinec was delivered on 24 March 2016. Stjepan Klarić was ultimately sentenced to four and a half years in prison, Viktor Ivančan to three, Dražen Pavlović and Željko Živec to two, and Goran Štrukelja to one year and five months.