During the Croatian War of Independence, 109,500 Serbs lived in this area out of a total of 160,000 [REF].
War crimes charges brought by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia against Croatian Serb leader in the region, Goran Hadžić, indicate that virtually all Croat and other non-Serb population of the region was either killed, deported or otherwise forcibly removed from the area [REF].