The location of Kijevo within Croatia. Areas controlled by the JNA in late December 1991 are highlighted in red.
Date
17–26 August 1991
Location
Dalmatian hinterland, Croatia
Result
Yugoslav People's Army victory
Belligerents
Yugoslavia SAO Krajina
Croatia
Commanders and leaders
Ratko Mladić Perislav Đukić Milan Martić
Martin Čičin Šain
Units involved
221st Motorised Brigade SAO Krajina TO
Croatian Police
Strength
unknown
58 policemen
Casualties and losses
None
20 captured 2 wounded
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Croatian War of Independence
1991
Pakrac
Plitvice Lakes
Kijevo
Borovo Selo
Zadar riot
Split protest
Sisak
Stinger
Hrvatska Kostajnica
Labrador
Banija villages
Vukovar
Massacre
Osijek
Gospić
Massacre
Kusonje
Korana bridge
The Barracks
Varaždin
Bjelovar
Zadar
Šibenik
JNA campaign
Dubrovnik
Banski Dvori
Široka Kula
Lovas
Baćin
Barcs
Saborsko
Libertas convoy
Požega
Swath 10
Erdut
Dalmatian channels
Kostrići
Škabrnja
Vance plan
Whirlwind
Paulin Dvor
Gornje Jame
Orkan 91
Voćin
Joševica
Devil's Beam
Bruška
Vrsar airport
1992
Sarajevo
ECMM helicopter downing
Baranja
Jackal
Miljevci Plateau
Tiger
Liberated Land
Konavle
Vlaštica
1993
Maslenica
Medak Pocket
1994
Winter '94
1995
Leap 1
Flash
Medari
Zagreb
Leap 2
Summer '95
Storm
Komić
Kijani
Golubić
Uzdolje
Bosanski Petrovac bombing
Dvor
Grubori
Gošić
Maestral 2
Varivode
Timeline of all major events
Log Revolution
Events in Serbia
The 1991 siege of Kijevo was one of the earliest clashes of the Croatian War of Independence. The 9th Corps of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) led by Colonel Ratko Mladić and the forces of the Serbian Autonomous Oblast (region) of Krajina (SAO Krajina) under Knin police chief Milan Martić besieged the Croat-inhabited village of Kijevo in late April and early May 1991. The initial siege was lifted after negotiations that followed major protests in Split against the JNA.
The JNA and the SAO Krajina forces renewed the blockade in mid-August. Kijevo was captured on 26 August, and subsequently looted and burned. The fighting in Kijevo was significant as one of the first instances when the JNA openly sided with the SAO Krajina against Croatian authorities. The Croatian police fled Kijevo towards the town of Drniš and the remaining Croatian population left the village.
Martić was tried at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on several different charges of war crimes including, his involvement in the siege of Kijevo. The trial resulted in a guilty verdict, and the findings of the Trial Chamber regarding Kijevo, made in 2007, were confirmed by the ICTY Appeals Chamber in 2008, based on witness testimonies about it being ethnic cleansing. The siege was the first instance of use of the ethnic cleansing in the Yugoslav Wars. Croatian authorities tried Mladić in absentia and convicted him for war crimes committed in Kijevo.
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