Trial of Gotovina et al

The former heads of the Department of State Security of Serbia are accused of aiding and abetting the commission of war crimes in Bosanski amac.
In June 2021, Stanii and Simatovi were sentenced to 12 years in prison by the first-instance verdict.

Croatian Serb advocacy orgnisations and other human rights organisations on Wednesday started a six-day campaign to commemorate the Serbian civilian victims of the Croatian army's 1995 Operation "Oluja" ("Storm").

The operation terminated an ethnic Serb rebellion but also resulted in some 200,000 Serbs being expelled or fleeing the Knin region in southwest Croatia.

Tudjman's statement was a response to international pressure to amend a law that restricted the return of property to Serbs who had been expelled or fled the country after the Croatian military's Operation Storm in August that year.

Gotovina became a national icon when he was indicted in July 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY for large-scale crimes against Serb civilians during and after Operation Storm. A broad section of the Croatian public supported his cause, seeing him as a victim of unfair treatment of the young Croatian state by the international community.

A Croatian NGO asked the European Court of Human Rights to examine the Zagreb government's refusal to release information about a contract for legal representation for generals Mladen Markac and Ante Gotovina at their Hague Tribunal appeal.

The Serbian prime minister said this on Tuesday after Croatia's top officials reacted to the speech made by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic over the weekend, during a commemoration in Backa Palanka, northern Serbia, on the anniversary of Croatia's 1995 offensive against ethnic Serbs, known as "Operation Storm."

This Croatian military-police offensive took place in early August 1995, and also resulted in more than 200,000 Serbs being expelled from Croatia.

Of the victims, more than 60 percent were civilians, of which about three quarters over 60 years of age, Veritas said.

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights urged Zagreb not to name a street after Janko Bobetko, a deceased Croatian general who was named as a part of a wartime joint criminal enterprise by the Hague Tribunal.

BELGRADE - The ICTY's judgement on Croatia's joint criminal enterprise in Bosnia and Herzegovina will have consequences for the relations between the two countries, Serbian Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Carmel Agius on Thursday discussed the ICTY's legacy 24 years since its establishment and cooperation among Western Balkan countries on war crimes-related matters.