Croatian War of Independence

ZAGREB - Serb parties in the eastern Croatian city of Vukovar signed a coalition agreement to stand together in early elections for the city council and mayor, scheduled for June 15.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Croatia did not violate the rights of former soldier Fred Margus by prosecuting him for war crimes again after he had been amnestied.

Lawyers for notorious Serb ex-commander Dragan Vasiljkovic, who is in detention in Australia, said too much time had passed for him to be extradited to Croatia to face war crimes charges.

BELGRADE - The identification of remains of 19 Serb victims killed during the armed conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995 in Croatia was carried out at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminalistics of the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, in the presence of family members.

BELGRADE - The stickers with the Croatian flag used to cover the bilingual signs on government buildings in Vukovar, which were put there by members of an association of war veterans, confirm that Serbs are underpriviliged citizens in Croatia and that the law does not protect them, head of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta said on Saturday.

EASTERN SARAJEVO - Serbs from Republika Srpska (RS) commemorated on Saturday the death of 42 soldiers of the former Yugoslav Army (JNA) who were killed in the Dobrovoljacka street in Sarajevo 22 years ago, and at the same time, former members of the so called Green Berets gathered at the same location, but they dispersed without incident.

19 years since Croatia's attack on Serb areas

BELGRADE -- Thursday marks 19 years since the beginning of Croatia's Operation Flash, when 283 Serbs were killed and at least 15,000 driven out of their homes.

Among the victims were 57 women and nine children.

SARAJEVO - The chief prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Serge Brammertz has said that, following a recent visit to Sarajevo, he is disappointed with the progress in war crimes investigations transferred several years ago by the ICTY Prosecutor's Office to Bosnia.

Croatian rights groups said prison terms given to four former Yugoslav Army reservists for abusing Croat prisoners at the Morinj wartime detention camp in Montenegro were inadequate.

In a landmark ruling, a Montenegrin court upheld the convictions of four former Yugoslav Army reservists jailed for abusing Croatian prisoners at the Morinj wartime detention camp.