Kuljani (Serbian: Куљани) is a village in the municipality of Novi Grad, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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The Kostrići massacre was the killing 16 Croat civilians in the village of Kostrići, near Hrvatska Kostajnica by Serb paramilitary unit "Kaline Komogovina" on 15 November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence. Among those killed were two children. The oldest victim was 93 years old.
The Serb paramilitary unit of "Kaline Komogovina", which was led by Stevo Borojević "Gadafi", entered Kostrići from two directions, from Hrvatska Kostajnica and Majur and murdered the entire population remaining in the village, which amounted to 16 civilians. In one house they found a young woman with two children, whom they asked for her husband, Zlatko Jurić. After being told that he had gone to the neighbouring village Stubalj, the three were killed. The husband reported the crime to Milan Martić's militia in Kostajnica, and was then killed. The village was looted and burned. Only seven victims were identified. Some victims were found after the war in burned and destroyed homes.
After committing the massacre in Kostrići, the same Serb paramilitary unit massacred another 38 Croat civilians in the nearby villages of Majur, Graboštani and Stubalj.
Two alleged members of the paramilitary unit have been charged with killing five police officers and two civilians in the village Volinja in October 1991.
In 2011 a monument to the victims, with names inscribed, was unveiled in the village.
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Gornje Vodičevo is a village in the municipality of Novi Grad, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It consists of twenty hamlets; among them are Kukavice, Vukovići, Kestenova Dolina, Bundale, Rekići, Potok, Žljeba, Šurlani, Kolundžije, and Đurđevići-Zecovi.
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The Church of St. Nicholas in Dobrljin is Serbian Orthodox church in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The building was constructed at the site of older wooden church. The local Serbian Orthodox parish is one of the oldest parishes in the municipality of Novi Grad with the current building being over 130 years old as reported in 2022. The church together with local orthodox population and priest were targeted during the Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia when local priest Aleksa Popović was forced by Ustashe to personally demolish the monument to Peter I of Serbia before he was driven to the forced labour camp in Koprivnica. Active religious services at the site were reinitiated only in 1996.
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Blatna is a village in the municipality of Novi Grad, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Dobrljin is a village in the municipality of Novi Grad, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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