Vukovar

Seselj bought the property "from A.P., who until 1991 lived with her family in Vukovar (Croatia)," Croatian daily Vecernji List writes on Thursday.

The woman said that the house was built by her parents after the family left Croatia, and that it had been on the market since 2001, when her father died - but attracted no interest.

The Serbian National Council, which represents the Serb minority in Croatia, recorded a rise last year in the number of threats, hate speech and violence directed against Serbs in the country.

Serbian appeals court confirms jail sentences for eight former fighters of 101 years for the massacre of around 200 people at Ovcara, following the fall of Vukovar, eastern Croatia, in 1991.

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Thousands of people from all over Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Croats from abroad, came to the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar on Saturday to commemorate the fall of the town in 1991 and mourn its victims.

President of the Serbian Commission on Missing Persons Veljko Odalovic has walked out of a conference in Zagreb, Croatia.

The reason was a series of insulting statements aimed against Serbia made at the gathering by Croatia's Assistant Minister of Veteran Affairs Stjepan Sucic.

VUKOVAR - Stickers with the image of people hanging from a tree and inscription in English "Serbian family tree" have appeared on Trpinja road and bus stops. Later they appeared on several other locations in Vukovar, reported Serbian daily "Vecernje Novosti".

The police immediately gave the order to remove the stickers and began an investigation.

The ruling Serbian Progressive Party has been hosting Veselin Sljivancanin, who was convicted by the Hague Tribunal of responsibility for the 1991 Vukovar massacre, as a speaker at party events.

Youth activists in Novi Sad staged a protest after an exhibition depicting the destruction of the Croatian town of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People’s Army in 1991 was vandalised.

Vandals have broken the windows and torn the photographs on display in Srdjan Veljkovic's exhibition "Vukovar - the killing of a city," installed in Novi Sad.

The website 021.rs is reporting that messages "What about the killing of Serbs?", "Scum", and "F*uck you Vukovar" first appeared on the windows two days earlier.

State officials commemorated the fall of the Croatian town of Vukovar to Yugoslav troops and Serbian paramilitaries in 1991 and mourned the victims of the three-month siege.