According to the website of the Centre for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights - Osijek, Željko Belina, Dejan Milić, Ivan Grgić, and Zdravko Plesec, former members of the Croatian Army, were charged with committing war crimes during the Yugoslav Wars against local Novska Serb civilians, i.e. torturing and killing Vera Mileusnić and her daughter Goranka, and a neighbour, Blaženka Slabak, in December 1991. Petar Mileusnić, Vera's husband and Goranka's father, was shot, but survived his injuries. Ultimately the charges were vacated and the defendants initially exonerated by the Croatian judiciary under that country's Amnesty law.