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The murder of the Zec family occurred on 7 December 1991 in Zagreb, Croatia. The Croatian Serb family was killed by members of the reserve force of the Croatian Ministry of the Interior during the Croatian War of Independence. Of the five members of the family, the perpetrators killed the mother, father and their 12-year old daughter.

Legal proceedings following the murders were controversial. Inital charges were dropped due to procedural reasons.

Timeline
On 7 December 1991 at around 23:00, members of the Croatian Ministry of the Interior reserve force under the command of Tomislav Merčep arrived at the home of the Zec family in the Trešnjevka neighbourhood. According to later news reports, these were allegedly eighteen year old Siniša Rimac, Munib Suljić, Igor Mikola, Nebojša Hodak and Suzana Živanović. After the group broke into his home, Mihajlo Zec attempted to escape, but was killed by a single shot fired by Rimac from a distance of 30 m. Mihajlo's wife Marija and his daughter Aleksandra witnessed the event and were captured by the group while the two remaining children stayed hidden in the house. The mother and her daughter were put into a police truck and taken to the Adolfovac mountain house on Sljeme. Later reports suggest the witnesses of the killings and kidnaping called the police which alerted their patrols, however a police checkpoint near Sljeme was reluctatnt to stop the perpetrators when they saw they were members of Merčep's unit.

Legal proceeding
On 10 December 2010 Croatian authorities arrested Tomislav Merčep.

Aftermath
In June 2012 Croatian director Oliver Frljić announced he was working on a play called Aleksandra Zec which he planned on premiering in late 2013 at the Gavella Theatre in Zagreb. After controversies surrounding the posters for Frljić's other play, Fine mrtve djevojke (English: Nice dead girls), caused the Gavella Theatre to remove them, in January 2013 Frljić cancelled his cooperation with the theatre on the Aleksandra Zec project and an adaptation of Dostoyevskys Crime and Punishment. A few days later the mayor of Rijeka, Vojko Obersnel, invited Frljić to complete his work on the play in a theatre in Rijeka. Frljić accepted and began work on the play in March 2014. The play premiered on 15 April, preceded by a promotion of the book Aleksandra Zec by author Tamara Opačić and attended by Frljić along with Obersnel, Rade Šerbedžija, Zlatko Komadina, Damir Urban, Milorad Pupovac, Vesna Teršelič and Andrea Zlatar-Violić.

Both the promotion and the subsequent play caused a protest of a group of around ten citizens, some of them in army uniforms, including members of the Croatian Pure Party of Rights and the Council for the Defence of Croatian Vukovar which took part in the 2013 Anti-Cyrillic protests. Protesters held signs with messages such as "When will Croatian victims get a play?" and "402 Croatian children were killed by the Chetniks". On the same day Mile Biondić, president of the Association of Croatian veterans of the city of Rijeka, called for a ban of the play, explaining the motive of the murders were not their Serbian nationalities, but rather "unfinished buissnes between Mihajlo Zec and Munib Suljić."

In April 2014 the Youth Initiative for Human Rights proposed naming a park in the Trešnjevka neighbourhood where the family lived after Aleksandra Zec. The iniatiative gained support from president Ivo Josipović, former president Stjepan Mesić, journalists and writers Aleksandar Stanković, Boris Dežulović, Ante Tomić, Predrag Matvejević, Miljenko Jergović as well as members of the academic community.

Development and building
The Kotor-class was developed by the Brodarski institut (BI) from Zagreb based on the Soviet Koni-class frigates, two of which were already in service with the Yugoslav Navy at the time. The two ships in the class were named after the towns of Kotor in SR Montenegro and Pula in SR Croatia. They were also the second ships in the Yugoslav Navy to carrie those names, with the first ones being two W-class destroyers that were decommissioned during the 1970s.

Built at the Tito's Kraljevica Shipyard and designated as large patrol boats (Veliki Patrol BRod; VPBR), Kotor (VPBR-33) was launched on 21 May 1985 and commissioned in January 1987, while Pula (VPBR-34) was launched on 18 December 1986 and commissioned in November 1988.

Description
The ships measure 96.7 m in lenght with a 12.8 m beam and a 4.2 m draught. Fully loaded they displace 1870 - 1900 t. The class utilizes a a CODAG type of propulsion powering three shafts; the diesel section consists of two SEMT Pielstick 12 PA 6 V 280 engines rated at 7.1 MW and a single 13.2 MW SGV Nikolayev gas turbine. This enables them a maximum speed of 22 kn if powered by diesel engines only or 27 kn when combined with the gas turbine. Traveling at the speed of 14 kn the ships have a range of 1800 nmi.

Service
http://www.hrbi.hr/images/files/Brodovi/Patrolni_brod_Kotor.pdf

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