Zagreb has sent back Serbian indictments for war crimes against three top Croatian military officials, saying they aren't valid.
>>>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.
>>>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.
>>>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.
>>>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.
>>>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.
>>>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.
>>>The Croatian local courts need to prosecute those responsible for war crimes that took place in Croatia, EU official says.
>>>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.
>>>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.
>>>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.
>>>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.
>>>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.
>>>Croatia has prosecuted 27 war crimes perpetrated during and after Operation Storm in 1995, but none has yet ended in a verdict.
>>>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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