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Croatian police on Friday said they have charged an unnamed 49-year-old Croatian citizen, a former fighter in the rebel Serb-run Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, RSK, with committing war crimes in today's Split-Dalmatia County in February 1993.

"A very, very dangerous man."

This is how the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte, described the fugitive she hunted for more than a decade in order to bring him for trial for the first genocide on European soil since the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Police announced on Monday that they have charged a 55-year-old Croatian citizen, who they did not name, with committing a war crime against a civilian.

According to the police, "a criminal investigation established a well-founded suspicion" that the suspect, who was "an armed member of paramilitary units", raped a female Croatian citizen.

Five people who had been missing since the 1991-95 war in Croatia were identified on Friday at the forensic department in the eastern town of Osijek.

Among those whose remains were identified was Croatian soldier Tomislav Balic, a member of Croatian Army's 204th Vukovar Brigade.

The Centre for Nonviolent Action said that activists from the Marking Unmarked Sites of Suffering campaign have put up temporary signs at eight more unmarked war sites in the Herzegovina area of the country as part of efforts to convince the authorities to install permanent memorials at places were people were detained, abused, killed and buried during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s.

Croatian police said on Wednesday that they have charged a 78-year-old Croatian citizen and a 79-year-old Serbian citizen with committing war crimes against civilians in Croatia's Lika region from October 8 to November 10, 1991.

Retired general Jovan Divjak has died after a prolonged illness at the age of 84, Education Builds Bosnia, the NGO he established, announced in a statement.Born on March 11, 1937, in Belgrade, he graduated from the Military Academy, the Command and Staff Academy and the War School. He later graduated also from the French Army Staff School.

Zagreb County Court on Monday acquitted former Yugoslav People's Army, JNA colonel Vladimir Davidovic of the shelling of the northern Croatian city of Varazdin in September 1991 after retrying him in absentia.

The Croatian Supreme Court said on Friday that it has overturned an earlier court decision acquitting Marko Carevic, the commander of the Territorial Defence forces of the self-declared wartime Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina, of ordering the murder of an elderly Croatian man in the village of Kablar in October 1991.

Police said on Friday that they have arrested an unnamed 50-year-old former Serbian paramilitary fighter and charged him with committing a war crime in a settlement near Vukovar in eastern Croatia, two months before the fall of the besieged town.