Persecution of Serbs

Activists of the Self-Determination Party have overturned a truck carrying Serbian goods sold in Kosovo.

The incident happened on Thursday, near the town of Podujevo.

A Zagreb court again acquitted two former special policemen following a retrial for war crimes committed in the village of Grubori after Croatia’s operation ‘Storm’ in August 1995.

The victim needs to be remembered, but one should also be able to forgive, SPC Patriarch Irinej told Orthodox believers during a visit to Jasenovac and Pakrac.

This is according to a report in Croatian daily Jutarnji List, which continued:

Tomislav Duic, who was convicted of war crimes against Serb civilian prisoners in the Croatian military prison camp Lora in Split, was captured after 11 years on the run.

Dragisa Murganic, secretary of the Red Cross in Kosovo, told BIRN that they backed an appeal for Serbs in Kosovo to donate part of their income to the Serbian Orthodox Church's Diocese of Raska and Prizren.

"It is a good proposal. Everything that's in the interest of the people of Kosovo is welcome. We need to express a lot more solidarity in these difficult times," Murganic said.

Serbia's war crimes prosecution has asked Nigeria to quizz a senior doctor who has accused a state governor and Kosovo’s foreign minister Hashim Thaci of trafficking in human organs.

A witness at a rehabilitation hearing for Milan Nedic argued that the Nazi-backed WWII-era puppet government leader helped many Serbs survive the German occupation of the region.

A working group set up by the Serbian Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija, will create "an archive" documenting the crimes committed by the KLA.

Kosovo Serb political party chief Ivanovic, who was under house arrest pending his appeal against his recent war crimes conviction for ordering ethnic Albanians’ murders, was ordered back into custody.

The anniversary of the Novi Sad Raid - during which several thousand citizens were murdered, their bodies thrown under the Danube ice - was marked on Friday.

The massacres were committed by the occupying Hungarian fascist forces from January 4 until January 29, 1942, targeting the local Serb, Jewish, and Roma population.