Korenica is a village in Lika, Croatia, located in the municipality of Plitvice Lakes, on the road between Plitvice and Udbina. It has 1,570 residents (2001). Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast. ... Categories: Croatian geography stubs | National parks of Croatia | UN World Heritage Sites ...
In SFRY it was named Titova Korenica after Tito. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a Balkan state that existed from 1945 to 1992. ... Josip Broz Tito (May 7, 1892 - May 4, 1980) was the ruler of Yugoslavia between the end of World War II and his death in 1980. ...
The coexistence in Korenica was disturbed on the first day of March when a returnee family, the Funduks, grandfather Mile, grandmother Dara and grandson Milan, tried to move into their house in the center of Korenica.
Activist of the organization HOMO cite the case of 78-year-old grandmother Stana as evidence that incidents in Korenica are not inter-ethnic but caused by profiteers: this elderly woman is forced to live in a shack, since a Serb has moved into her house and would not let her in.
Drago Bozic, a refugee from Kakanj [in central Bosnia-Hercegovina] is a representative and a spokesperson for the Croats from Bosnia-Hercegovina settled in Korenica.
Italian soldiers controlling the Pec sector were led by KLA guerrillas to the site of two mass graves of suspected massacre victims in the village of Korenica, near to Djakovica.
The area around the mass graves had been mined, and Kosovo Albanians who had been hiding in the area told the soldiers that they believed the graves contained the remains of some 120 males aged between 16 and 65.
They are believed to be victims of the same massacre.
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