Republic of Serbian Krajina

Journalist Dejan Anastasijevic told the trial of former Serbian state security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the units they controlled fought to implement Slobodan Milosevic’s plan to seize parts of Bosnia and Croatia.

The retrial of Miroslav Jovic, a member of rebel Croatian Serb forces accused of killing one Croat civilian and wounding another during wartime in 1991, started at Zagreb county court.

Former Territorial Defence force security officer Ekrem Ibracevic was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes against Serb civilian prisoners held in poor conditions at detention centres in Srebrenik in 1992.

According to the Veritas Center, on May 1 and 2, 1995 283 people, including 114 civilians and 11 militiamen were killed or disappeared, while 133 others remain listed as missing, including 59 civilians and 27 women.

A prosecution witness told the trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Serbian Red Berets paramilitaries killed Bosniaks and Croat captives in the town of Doboj in 1992.

Former Serbian State Security Service official Franko Simatovic’s defence at his Hague Tribunal trial denied that the service brought Serb paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic, alias Captain Dragan, to Yugoslavia in 1990.

Former Serbian State Security chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence told his trial in The Hague that there was no evidence that paramilitary forces who committed war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia were under the service’s control.

Zagreb state attorney’s office filed an indictment accusing 22 members of rebel Croatian Serb forces of committing war crimes against Croats in villages in the Slavonia region in 1991.

A prosecution military expert told the trial of Serbian State Security Service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that units under the service’s control committed war crimes against non-Serb civilians in Croatia in 1991.

BELGRADE - Serbian and Croatian Justice Ministers Nela Kuburovic and Drazen Bosnjakovic will speak in Belgrade next month, with the meeting expected to make it clearer whether Zagreb will continue to insist that Belgrade stops prosecuting Croatian nationals indicted for war crimes.

The meeting will follow in the wake of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's visit to Croatia.