The Lovas killings ( , , ) involved Cause_to_be_included the killing Killing of 70 Croat civilian residents of the village of Lovas between 10–18 October 1991 , during the Croatian War of Independence .

The Lovas killings ( , , ) involved Cause_to_be_included the killing Killing of 70 Croat civilian residents of the village of Lovas between 10–18 October 1991 , during the Croatian War of Independence .

The church in Lovas was torched Lighting and 261 houses were looted Robbery and destroyed Destroying , while 1,341 civilians were forced Hostile_encounter to leave their homes .

Lovas was rebuilt Building after the war , but its population size shrunk Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by one third compared to its pre-war level .

The occupation of Lovas and the killing Killing and expulsion of its civilian population was included Cause_to_be_included in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) indictments of the President of Serbia , Slobodan Milošević , and Goran Hadžić , a high-ranking official of the Croatian Serb-declared wartime breakaway region of SAO Eastern Slavonia , Baranja and Western Syrmia .