Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Hague Tribunal asked Bosnia and Croatia to help with payment of the 2.8 million euro defence debt of Bosnian Croat ex-military chief Slobodan Praljak, who is currently appealing against his war crimes conviction.

Slobodan Praljak, the former chief of the Croatian Defence Council’s Main Headquarters, appealed against his conviction for war crimes against Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993 and 1994.

Bruno Stojic, former defence minister of the unrecognised Bosnian Croat wartime statelet of Herzeg-Bosna, denied involvement in a joint criminal enterprise to create a greater Croatian state in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Jadranko Prlic, the former premier of the unrecognised wartime Herzeg-Bosna statelet, appealed against his war crimes conviction, denying involvement in a joint criminal enterprise with Croatian officials.

Jadranko Prlic, the former prime minister of the unrecognised wartime Herzeg-Bosna Croatian Community, is the first of the six Bosnian Croat ex-officials to launch an appeal on Monday against war crimes convictions at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY in The Hague.

Appeals hearings will be held this month in the case of six former six Bosnian Croat leaders convicted by the Hague Tribunal of committing war crimes in the short-lived unrecognised statelet of Herzeg-Bosna.

Dejan Lovren, a defender at Liverpool football club, launches a biographical film about his refugee experience on Wednesday in an attempt to trigger sympathy and understanding for Syrian refugees who are trying to reach Europe.

The shooting of a feature film about the life of Croatian general Ante Gotovina, who was acquitted of war crimes by the Hague Tribunal, starts in Croatia this month.

Bosnia's Party of Democratic Action, SDA, the country's main Bosniak party, has rejected calls for the establishment of a third entity, made at a meeting on Saturday of the Croatian National Congress of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Such calls were "unacceptable", the SDA said, referring to a statement issued by the Congress following its seventh session in Mostar.

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