Serbs of Croatia

Zagreb state attorney’s office filed an indictment accusing 22 members of rebel Croatian Serb forces of committing war crimes against Croats in villages in the Slavonia region in 1991.

With this act Croatia again relativizes the horrific and genocidal crimes committed in the NDH during the Second World War, and it also sends the Serbs in Croatia more than a scary message. This is in direct contradiction with the foundations on which post-war Europe and international order were built.

VRGINMOST - I want you to be proud of your Serbian names, to be ashamed or afraid of no one, and to have the right to say what you expect from both Serbia and Croatia, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Serbs in Vrginmost, Croatia, on Tuesday.

ZAGREB - There are many outstanding issues from the past and that it why it is much more important for Serbia and Croatia to look to the future, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said at a meeting with Croatian Parliament Speaker Goran Jandrokovic in Zagreb on Monday.

At a press conference held after Vucic spoke with the Serbs in Vrginmost, Croatian journalists insisted on asking "whether he would apologize for the speech he made at a gathering in Glina in 1995."

Namely, Vucic at the time "promised to that the Serb Krajina and Glina will never be Croatia, and that the Ustasha rule will never be able to arrive there."

He met and spoke with ethnic Serbs there, and visited a local elementary school, to which he presented a gift - 11 laptop computers.

Tanjug is reporting that police increased their presence along the route Vucic's delegation traveled today.

Vrginmost was a place of suffering of Serbs, both in the Second World War and in during the war in the 1900s.

Vucic is convinced that he will have a good conversation with his Croatian counterpart, and when asked about the differences between that country's president and government, he said he "does not quite understand the argument that the time is not right for the visit, but that it would be accepted."

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has invited her Serbian counterpart to visit in February, amid tense relations between the two countries.

Three former members of Croatian Serb rebel units went on trial in absentia in Zagreb for burning homes in the village of Nova Derencina in central Croatia in 1991.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says the story about "the Greater Serbia aggression" on Croatia is - a great lie.

Dacic - speaking while presenting contracts to give Serb refugees from Croatia 302 packages of building material - said that a film about them that had been screened "shows how great a lie the 'Greater Serbia aggression' is."