Vukovar massacre

The UN's highest court on Feb. 3 rejected rival claims of genocide by former foes Croatia and Serbia in landmark rulings over the bloody Balkans wars of the 1990s.

ZAGREB - The remains of 20 Serbs killed in the armed clashes in Croatia were identified at the forensic institute of the School of Medicine in Zagreb on Wednesday.

The identification was attended by the victims' family members.

The remains of the victims, killed between 1991 and 1995, had been exhumed in Slunj, Zadar, Sibenik, Novska and other locations.

ZAGREB - Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Vesna Pusic will travel to Belgrade for the summit between China and 16 central and southeast European countries, to be held on December 16-17.

Pusic will attend the meeting of the prime ministers of China and 16 European countries in Belgrade, the Croatian Foreign Ministry said on its Twitter account on Wednesday.

Ten former Croatian Serb fighters are on trial for killing 24 civilians and prisoners of war in 1991 in Trpinja near the town of Vukovar.

BELGRADE - The Appellate Court in Belgrade sentenced Petar Ciric, former member of the Vukovar Territorial Defence, to 15 years in prison for participating in the war crime at the Ovcara farm near Vukovar where a least 193 prisoners of war, members of the Croatian Armed Forces, were tortured and killed on November 21, 1991.

The Belgrade appeals court jailed ex-fighter Petar Ciric for 15 years over a mass killing at Ovcara Farm near Vukovar in Croatia after the town fell to Serbian troops in 1991.

"Šešelj should be sent back to Hague"

ZAGREB -- Ivo Josipović has condemned Vojislav Šešelj's message congratulating "liberation of Vukovar day", which is in Croatia marked as "remembrance day."

Around 100,000 citizens along with entire Croatian political leadership took part this year in commemorations of the fall of the eastern town of Vukovar in 1991 to the Yugoslav Army.

The Yugoslav People’s Army was responsible for war crimes around the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991, former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic told his trial at the Hague Tribunal.

A Belgrade court confirmed the indictment of five former Serbian fighters for alleged war crimes over the killings of 16 civilians in the Croatian village of Sotin near Vukovar in 1991.