Cedomir Vuckovic

Two former politicians, Luka Bebic and Andrija Hebrang, members of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, told Zagreb County Court on Monday that they only learned from the media that the defendant, Branimir Glavas, had been involved in war crimes against Serbian civilians in the eastern city of Osijek in 1991.

Nikola Jaman, who was a commander of the First Battalion of Osijek Defenders during wartime, testified at Zagreb County Court on Tuesday that he lied in earlier testimony about Branimir Glavas, who is being retried alongside six co-defendants for the killings of Serb civilians in the eastern city of Osijek in 1991.

Branimir Glavas, who has been a defendant in a series of trials for the killings of Serb civilians in Osijek for more than a decade, declared his innocence again on Monday as the latest proceedings against him opened at Zagreb County Court.

War crimes conviction against Croat politician canceled

ZAGREB -- Croatian Constitutional Court has overturned the ruling that the country's Supreme Court passed against Branimir Glavas.

Glavas is a former Croatian police official, army general, and member of parliament who was found guilty for committing war crimes against Serb civilians in the town of Osijek in 1991.