The Gospić-born Levar was murdered by a bomb placed under his car outside his house in Gospić 28 August 2000, because he had publicly campaigned for justice for victims of crimes committed during the Croatian War of Independence.
He had helped to defend the town in 1991 when local Serbs rebelled against Croatia's declaration of independence.
In 1991 he witnessed Serbian civilians taken by truck to locations outside of Gospić where they were executed by military police squads and buried in hidden mass graves.
[1] He was so shocked by his own side's actions that he left the military and decided to give evidence to the war-crimes tribunal in the Hague.
One of the concerns voiced by the witnesses as reasons for their unwillingness to give testimony about things they allegedly saw during the war is the prevailing impunity of the high profile military and political officials who were in position of power during the war.