Geography of Croatia

In a deal with the prosecution at his trial, former Yugoslav People’s Army officer Milan Pavlovic admitted to shelling the Croatian town of Sibenik in 1991 in return for a four-and-a-half-year sentence.

Former Yugoslav People’s Army officer Milan Pavlovic pleaded not guilty to committing crimes during an attack on the Croatian coastal town of Sibenik in 1991.

Honoring the defenders killed in the "defense of Dubrovnik" in the 1990s by the Montenegrin Ambassador to Zagreb, Bor Vucinic, a few days ago, caused a huge citizens' anger. Professor Radan Nikolic, president of the Association of War Veterans from 1990, estimates that this is a diplomatic scandal.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said Monday the relations with Croatia were always complicated but that she did not see a reason for Zagreb's note of protest to Belgrade over the "Jasenovac - The Right to Not Forget" exhibition, held at the UN headquarters in New York.

As I write, it is the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day of 2018. I have a glimmer of hope that the world is finally going to start learning about the most "monstrous death camp" from WWII — Jasenovac.

Serbian appeals court confirms jail sentences for eight former fighters of 101 years for the massacre of around 200 people at Ovcara, following the fall of Vukovar, eastern Croatia, in 1991.

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Thousands of people from all over Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Croats from abroad, came to the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar on Saturday to commemorate the fall of the town in 1991 and mourn its victims.

Croatian wartime general Branimir Glavas, now an MP, and five others accused of war crimes against Serb civilians in the city of Osijek in 1991-92 pleaded not guilty at Zagreb county court.

SPLIT - The county court in Split, Croatia, on Tuesday sentenced Dragan Vasiljkovic, also known as Captain Dragan, to 15 years in prison, Croatian media reported.

Vasiljkovic, 62, was found guilty on two counts of his indictment - abuse of prisoners of war in the Knin fortress and an attack on a police station in Glina.

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Dragan Vasiljkovic, aka Kapetan (Captain) Dragan, was on Tuesday sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Croatian court.

The court in the town of Split found him guilty on charges of war crimes committed against Croat soldiers and civilians in the 1990s.