Sotin is a village in eastern Croatia

Croatia

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, located a few kilometers southeast of Vukovar

Vukovar

Vukovar is a city in eastern Croatia, and the biggest river port in Croatia located at the confluence of the Vuka river and the Danube. Vukovar is the center of the Vukovar-Syrmia County...

 by the Danube

Danube

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. It is administratively part of the city of Vukovar, and its population is 969 (census 2001). The post code for Sotin is 32232 Sotin.

History

A witness reported to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's Committee for Compiling Data on Crimes Against Humanity and International Law that in June 1991, the restaurants "Kornakum" and "Zrmanja" and houses of several other ethnic Serbs were destroyed by Croatian Democratic Union

Croatian Democratic Union

The Croatian Democratic Union is the main center-right political party in Croatia. It is the biggest and strongest individual Croatian party since independence of Croatia. The Christian democratic HDZ governed Croatia from 1990 to 2000 and, in partial coalition, from 2003...

(HDZ) members.