croatia-returns-serbian-indictments-against-officials
03 Jan 13 Croatia Rejects Serbia 'Genocide' Indictments

Zagreb has sent back Serbian indictments for war crimes against three top Croatian military officials, saying they aren't valid.

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croatia-to-introduce-cyrillic-to-vukovar
03 Jan 13 Croatia to Introduce Cyrillic Script to Vukovar

Croatia is to introduce official use of the Serbian language and script into about 20 areas of where Serbs make up more than a third of the population.

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croatia-publishes-war-veteran-s-registry
20 Dec 12 Croatia Publishes List of War Veterans

The government has released a list of half a million former fighters in the independence war from 1991-1995 - in a drive to clamp down on the widespread abuse of veterans status.

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croatian-ngo-criticise-ruling-against-vukovic-s-sister
19 Dec 12 Croatian NGO Criticise Ruling Against Vukovic Sisters

Croatian Human Rights NGO has criticised the decision to make two sisters, war victims who sued Croatia for reparations and lost their case, pay court expenses or risk losing their property.

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un-extends-icty-judges-mandate
18 Dec 12 UN Extends Mandate for ICTY Judges

The United Nations has extended the mandate of the Hague Tribunal, ICTY, judges until the end of 2014 in order to finish ongoing cases, with Russia abstaining from the vote.

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serbia-croatia-investigate-1995-war-crimes-in-copenhagen
17 Dec 12 Serbia, Croatia Investigate Dvor na Uni War Crime

The Serbian and Croatian prosecutors have questioned on Monday in the Danish capital Copenhagen, two potential witnesses to the war crimes in the Croatian municipality Dvor in 1995.

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witness-mercep-planned-to-clean-karlovac
17 Dec 12 Witness Says Mercep Planned to 'Clean Up' Karlovac

Testifying at Tomislav Mercep’s trial, a police commander in the town of Karlovac said that the defendant was unhappy about being prevented from “cleaning up” the town during the 1990s war in Croatia.

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eu-urges-croatia-to-prosecute-war-crimes
14 Dec 12 EU Urges Croatia to Prosecute War Crimes

The Croatian local courts need to prosecute those responsible for war crimes that took place in Croatia, EU official says.

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croatian-serbian-officials-meet-following-icty-verdicts
10 Dec 12 Croatian, Serbian Officials Meet Following ICTY Verdicts

The Serbian and Croatian high officials have met for the first time since the ICTY acquittal of two Croatian generals in an effort to restore cooperation after their relations worsened over the last several months.

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cooperation-with-ex-yugoslav-countries-crucial-icty-says
06 Dec 12 Russia, Serbia Criticise the ICTY before the UN

At a meeting of the UN Security Council, Russia and Serbia slammed the recent Hague Tribunal acquittals while the ICTY Chief Prosecutor praised the cooperation with the countries in the region.

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documenta-war-rape-victims-neglected-in-croatia
04 Dec 12 War Rape Victims Neglected in Croatia, Warns NGO

War rape victims are neglected in Croatia, the human rights NGO Documenta warned, requesting changes to the law and changes in the social attitudes to restore dignity to victims.

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zagreb-retrial-for-1991-war-crime
30 Nov 12 Novska Killings Retrial Starts

The retrial of two former Croatian soldiers charged with killing three women in the central Croatian town of Novska in 1991 has started in Zagreb.

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witness-recalls-lovas-atrocities
28 Nov 12 Hadzic's Trial: Witness Recalls Lovas Atrocities

At the trial of the former Croatian Serb leader, Goran Hadzic, a protected witness has recalled being forced to walk through a minefield as a human shield in Croatia in 1991.

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the-storm-27-war-crime-cases-no-verdict
28 Nov 12 No Verdicts in Croatia Over Operation Storm

Croatia has prosecuted 27 war crimes perpetrated during and after Operation Storm in 1995, but none has yet ended in a verdict.

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jna-was-controlling-lovas-witness-says
27 Nov 12 Yugoslav People's Army Controlled Lovas, Witness Says

The trial of the former Croatian Serb leader, Goran Hadzic, has continued on Monday with a testimony of a survivor of war crimes committed in the Croatian village of Lovas in 1991.

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