Cerovnik is a village in the municipality of Josipdol

Josipdol

Josipdol is a village and municipality in Karlovac County, Croatia. The municipality is part of Lika.-Geography:Josipdol is situated in the Ogulin-Plaški valley which together with Lika and Gorski Kotar forms Mountainous Croatia. The town is located at the crossroads of state roads D-23, which...

 in Karlovac County

Karlovac County

Karlovac County is a county in central Croatia, with the administrative center in Karlovac.The city of Karlovac is another fort from the times of the Military Frontier...

. It lies below the Kapela

Kapela

Kapela is a municipality in Bjelovar-Bilogora County, Croatia. There are 3,516 inhabitants, of which 95% are Croats....

 mountain. According to the 2001 census, the town has 167 inhabitants.

On Statehood Day

Statehood Day (Croatia)

Statehood Day is a holiday that occurs every year on June 25 in Croatia to celebrate the country's 1991 declaration of independence from Yugoslavia. The Statehood Day is an official holiday, a day off work in Croatia....

 2008, the village unveiled a monument to the 156 villagers who died in the Second World War. Among those killed in the war was the Catholic priest Dragutin Fifka who was killed by Chetniks

Chetniks

Chetniks, or the Chetnik movement , were Serbian nationalist and royalist paramilitary organizations from the first half of the 20th century. The Chetniks were formed as a Serbian resistance against the Ottoman Empire in 1904, and participated in the Balkan Wars, World War I, and World War II...

 on May 24, 1943.

The town was mined during the Croatian War of Independence

Croatian War of Independence

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between forces loyal to the government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia —and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat...

. In the 2000s the process of demining the area began.