History of the Serbs

Israeli ambassador Zina Kalay Kleitman said in an open letter on Thursday that the new documentary film Jasenovac - The Truth offered a selective view of history and was offensive to the families of those who died at the concentration camp.

The Coordination of Jewish Communities in Croatia will boycott this year's commemoration event for the victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp.

As they announced, the decision was made in order to protest against the poor cooperation with the Jasenovac Memorial Institution, and against "the relativization and revitalization of the Ustasha movement" in Croatia.

The victim needs to be remembered, but one should also be able to forgive, SPC Patriarch Irinej told Orthodox believers during a visit to Jasenovac and Pakrac.

This is according to a report in Croatian daily Jutarnji List, which continued:

Tomislav Duic, who was convicted of war crimes against Serb civilian prisoners in the Croatian military prison camp Lora in Split, was captured after 11 years on the run.

A Belgrade appeals court confirmed the acquittal of former Croatian Serb fighter Zarko Cubrilo, who was found not guilty of the murder of 11 civilians in the Croatian village of Tenja in 1991.

The supreme court annulled the verdict acquitting two former special policemen of war crimes against Serb civilians in the village of Grubori after the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm, ordering a retrial.

Several houses, vehicles and a memorial site were shot at early on Monday in the Serb village of Gorazdevac in Kosovo.

Nobody was injured during the incidents.

Croatian website Index.hr has published excerpts from "basic laws of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH)" that banned the use of the Cyrillic alphabet.

The NDH was a Second World War-era fascist entity allied with the Nazis, whose Ustasha regime operated death camps for Serbs, Jews, and Roma, including Jasenovac.

Tuesday marks 20 years since the start of Croatia's military operation "Storm" that led to expulsion of more than 200,000 ethnic Serbs from that country.

Serbia and Bosnia’s Serb-led entity Republika Srpska will hold a day of mourning to commemorate Serb victims of the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm on its 20th anniversary in August.