After the town of Erdut was forcefully taken over by the Serb Volunteer Guard and JNA and annexed to the puppet state of Republic of Serbian Krajina during Croatian War of Independence, Croats and other non-Serbs were either expelled or killed, with Serbs repopulating empty villages in the area. From November 1991 until February 1992, there was a series of murders that took the lives of 37 civilians in total.