Croatia

Croatian president Ivo Josipovic have given his support to setting up a truth commission aimed at establishing facts about war crimes committed in Yugoslavia’s succeeding countries in the 1990s.

The closing arguments in the war crimes trials of three generals involved in Croatia’s 1995 “Operation Storm”, in which hundreds of ethnic Serbs were allegedly killed, are set to be heard in The Hague.

The head of the EU delegation to Croatia, Paul Vandoren, said on Friday (August 20th) that the successful completion of judicial reforms and the privatisation of state-owned shipyards will be key to completing the country’s EU accession negotiations. The judiciary and privatisation chapters are among the last three opened on …

Branimir Glavas, the Croatian former lawmaker convicted of war crimes, has been stripped of his war honours and rank of general by Croatia’s president. The order by Ivo Josipovic came three weeks after Glavas was sentenced to eight years inprisonment by the country’s Supreme Court for war crimes committed in …

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik accused Turkey Monday of interfering in Bosnia’s internal political affairs and Ancara of acting in favor of Bosnian Muslims. “We resent the fact that Turkey wants a unified and centralized Bosnia, favoring only

Croatia — The prosecutor’s office in Sisak has filed war crimes charges against five Serbian citizens, local media reported on Saturday (August 14th). Dusan Jovic, Vlado Cupovic, Marko Vrcelj, Mile Paspalj and Josa Kovacevic were allegedly involved in crimes against civilians and prisoners of war during the 1991-1995 war in …

Montenegro has started making payments to Croatians over the 1991 war damages. The Montenegrin government reached an out-of-court settlement with a resident of Dubrovnik, Croatia, and paid

Thousands of people across several Balkan countries have held services to commemorate those who died in Operation Storm 15-years ago. Croatia’s Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor headed a delegation

The Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia on Monday (August 2nd) deplored the lack of progress in resolving problems facing Serbs who fled Croatia after the 1995’s Operation Storm. In a statement

The Supreme Court on Saturday (July 31st) reduced the sentence of former parliament member Vladimir Glavas from ten to eight years. In May 2009, he was sentenced to ten years in prison for war crimes against ethnic