Former Croatian policeman Mihajlo Hrastov, who was convicted of killing 13 Yugoslav prisoners of war in the town of Karlovac in 1991, said he has been ordered to pay more than 350,000 euros to fund compensation.
The Supreme Court overturned the acquittal of Marko Carevic, wartime commander of rebel Croatian Serb Territorial Defence forces, for ordering the killing of an 83-year-old civilian in October 1991.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Croatia violated the rights of a Serb whose property was stolen and damaged after he fled the country because of the 1991-95 war.
The Croatian Supreme Court rejected Mirko Graorac’s plea for a retrial, despite new witnesses saying they never saw him at a Bosnian detention camp where he allegedly committed war crimes in 1992.
Three decades after Russian reporters Viktor Nogin and Gennadiy Kurinnoy were shot dead during the war in Croatia, two unnamed members of a rebel Serb special police unit have been charged with killing them.
The absence of nationalist gestures at state commemorations of war anniversaries and the reconciliatory rhetoric used by some Croatian officials offered some hope in 2020, but little progress was made in prosecuting alleged war criminals.
Croatia aims to pass legislation that will grant benefits to civilian victims of the 1991-95 war - but experts warn that the draft law in its current form could omit some people who suffered, including some Croatian Serbs.
BIRN’s analysis of Hague Tribunal evidence reveals which Yugoslav People’s Army and Serb paramilitary units were deployed in villages around Vukovar in Croatia in November 1991 when Croat civilian prisoners were murdered after the town fell.
The EU Ombudsman opened an inquiry into the possible failure by the European Commission to ensure that Croatia respected the rights of migrants and refugees at its border.