Croatian police arrested a man suspected of committing crimes against prisoners of war at Ovcara Farm, where Croats were abused and killed after the fall of the town of Vukovar in 1991.
Croatia’s Supreme Court increased the prison sentence handed down to Vinko Martinovic, a Bosnian Croat wartime fighter already convicted of ethnic cleansing by the Hague Tribunal, for the 1996 murder of a Bosniak woman in Mostar.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia, most of the case files and evidence from war crime trials are not immediately accessible to journalists, researchers and the general public, obscuring a crucial part of recent Balkan history.
BIRN’s analysis of Hague Tribunal evidence has revealed which Croatian military and police units were deployed in villages where Serb civilians were killed during and after 1995’s Operation Storm - but none of their commanders has ever been indicted.
Prosecutors in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, have filed an indictment against six men, fans of the football club Dinamo Zagreb, over an anti-Serb banner hoisted in the city.
The Austrian Green Party told BIRN why MPs backed a proposed ban on an annual commemoration in Austria of Croatian Nazi-allied troops and civilians killed in World War II which has become a get-together for nationalists.
A human rights NGO has filed a criminal complaint against unknown Croatian police officers for 'degrading treatment' of 33 migrants and refugees - including tagging migrants with paint - and their 'illegal expulsion' from the territory of Croatia.