Persecution of Serbs

Families of 14 women and children killed by Belgrade’s forces in the Kosovo town of Podujevo/Podujeves in March 1999 will appeal to a Serbian court, asking for more compensation.

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.

Hundreds of people gathered in the central town of Varvarin to commemorate 17th anniversary of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia that helped to end the Kosovo war in 1999.

A graffiti reading "ISIS is coming" has been discovered on the wall of the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas in Pristina, Tanjug is reporting on Thursday.

Italian KFOR soldiers noticed it over the weekend, the report added.

A former detainee of a WWII concentration camp in Belgrade told a court hearing about Nazi-backed puppet government leader Milan Nedic’s proposed rehabilitation that he helped to free her family.

A Kosovo official and former KLA member who was arrested in Macedonia on war crimes charges says he is "treated as a citizen of Serbia."

Gafur Dugoli, chief of protocol at the Kosovo Security Forces Ministry, was arrested in Macedonia on Serbian Interior Ministry's request and an Interpol warrant.

Activists of the Self-Determination Party have overturned a truck carrying Serbian goods sold in Kosovo.

The incident happened on Thursday, near the town of Podujevo.

A Zagreb court again acquitted two former special policemen following a retrial for war crimes committed in the village of Grubori after Croatia’s operation ‘Storm’ in August 1995.

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: