Mirko Norac

The Croatian Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it has confirmed the verdict sentencing former army officer Josip Krmpotic to three years in prison for committing war crimes against civilians during the 'Medak Pocket' operation in southern Croatia, but acquitting him of failing to prevent the killing of prisoners of war.

The Croatian state attorney's office said on Monday that it has appealed against a recent first-instance ruling by the Zagreb Municipal Civil Court, which rejected a request from the state for convicted war criminal Mirko Norac and two of his co-perpetrators to pay the state the money that it has already given to their victims in compensation.

According to the newspaper, this list was handed over to the War Crimes Prosecution in April of last year and is the last one of this type that was submitted to domestic judicial authorities.

Zagreb county court has rejected an indictment accusing 29 Serbs of war crimes over dozens of killings in the Croatian village of Vocin in 1991, ruling that it needs to be clarified.

Victims’ rights groups condemned the attendance of convicted war criminal Mirko Norac at an anniversary commemoration of the Croatian Army’s 1993 ‘Medak Pocket’ operation.

Former soldier Rajko Krickovic was charged with shooting two Serb civilians and burning another one alive in the village of Kijani after the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm in August 1995.

General Rahim Ademi, who was acquitted of crimes against humanity, has launched a lawsuit against Croatia seeking compensation for the seven months he spent in custody at the Hague Tribunal.

Police arrested the former Croatian Army serviceman on suspicion that he committed a war crime by killing three Serb civilians in the aftermath of the military operation in 1995.

Former soldier Velibor Solaja was acquitted of killing of an elderly female civilian during the Croatian Army’s controversial ‘Medak Pocket’ operation against Serb forces in September 1993.

A Zagreb court cleared two former Croatian anti-terrorist policemen of the notorious massacre of six Serb civilians during an operation in the village of Grubori in 1995.