Republic of Serbian Krajina

Eight former fighters were indicted for wartime crimes against Serb civilians who were unlawfully detained and allegedly tortured and sexually abused in the Lukavac area in 1992.

Two Croatian Serbs from Vukovar were charged with committing war crimes in the town in 1991, but the authorities denied that the charges were linked to a recent mass protest by local Croats demanding prosecutions.

A Croatian court sentenced former Yugoslav People’s Army general Borislav Djukic to nine years in prison for trying to blow up the Peruca dam during the war in 1993.

The State Attorney's Office in Split said on Thursday that it will begin an investigation into an unnamed 72-year-old Serbian citizen accused of crimes against prisoners during the war in 1992 and 1993.

Led by war veterans, victims’ families and politicians, Croatians gathered in the town of Vukovar to commemorate the fall of the town to Belgrade’s forces in 1991 and mourn the victims.

A court refused to grant early release to former Serbian paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic, alias Captain Dragan, convicted of war crimes against Croatian civilians and prisoners of war in 1991.

Three Croatian citizens who were detained in prison camps in Serbia after the fall of Vukovar are suing the authorities in Belgrade for compensation, one of them, Dragutin Guzovski, told BIRN on Wednesday.

The unnamed former Serb paramilitary was charged with abusing and torturing a captured Croatian soldier in the town of Vukovar in November 1991.

Serbian authorities said that the bodies of nine Serb victims killed in 1995 during the Croatian war have been exhumed from four localities in Croatia.

Zagreb county court sentenced former Serb paramilitaries Dusan Zarkovic and Bogdan Jednak to 15 years in prison each for taking part in the killing of 21 Croats in Josevica in central Croatia in December 1991.