Croatian War of Independence
Bosnian Army Ex-Officer Cleared of War Crime Against Serb Prisoners
The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court announced on Friday that it has rejected a prosecution appeal and cleared Hazim Fazlovic, the former commander of the Third Battalion of the 108th Motorised Brigade of the Bosnian Army, of bearing responsibility for crimes against prisoners of war in Brcko in 1993.
Forensic Challenge: How Investigators Found the Yugoslav Wars’ Disappeared
In May 1999, in the midst of the Kosovo war, Serbia's assistant interior minister Obrad Stevanovic made a grim note in his diary while he was having a meeting with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Under the capital-letter heading "PRESIDENT", Stevanovic wrote: "No body, no crime."
Yugoslav Naval Officer Who Refused to Bomb Croatia Honored
Montenegrin and Croatian officials on Monday unveiled a memorial on the Croatian island of Vis to a Yugoslav naval officer who refused to bomb towns on Croatia's coast in the war in 1991.
Croatia: Continuous reactions; possible blocking of Serbia on its EU road
In Croatia, there are numerous reactions to the confirmed indictment of Serbia against four pilots for war crimes against civilians on the Petrovac road in early August 1995.
Minister of Justice and Administration, Ivan Malenica, also believes that this is a political process, which, he says, can be the reason for blocking Serbia's entry into the European Union.
Croatia Hails ‘Clean Victory’ in Operation Storm, Serbs Lament ‘Pogrom’
Croatian political leaders, wartime generals and war veterans gathered on Friday in the town of Knin to mark the anniversary of the country's victorious military offensive, Operation Storm, which effectively ended the independence war in the country in 1995.
The Storm Anniversary: Commemoration in Serbia, national holiday in Croatia
The anniversary of the military-police operation Storm, during which the largest exodus of Serbs since World War II was recorded at the beginning of August 1995, will also be marked as a national holiday in Croatia this year - the Day of Victory and Homeland Gratitude and Veterans' Day, while in Serbia that crime that goes unpunished will be marked with a commemorative rally in Novi Sad.
Croatian Serb War Victims Hope Compensation Claims Finally Pay Off
"I was in the hospital for six days, after that I wore a leg brace for a month," he added.
Some two-and-a-half years later Drca, together with many other Croatian Serbs, was forced to flee the country and come to Serbia.
Operation Storm Anniversary Highlights Croatia and Serbia’s Bitter Mistrust
Ever since, politicians in Croatia and Serbia have commemorated different parts of those events - the parts that suit them, ignoring the arguments and victims from the other side.
Serbia Extradites Vukovar Massacre Convict to Croatia
Ivica Husnik, who was convicted in Serbia of involvement in the killings of some 200 people at Ovcara Farm near Vukovar in November 1991, was extradited to Croatia on July 7 to serve his sentence for a different crime, Osijek County Court confirmed on Monday.
Prosecutions Discontinued in 250 ‘Category A’ War Crime Investigations
The Prosecution wrote that, between 2004 and 2022, it registered a total of 814 cases referred by the Prosecution of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY.