Croatian President Zoran Milanovic defended his decision to meet former officers of the Bosnian Croat wartime force, the Croatian Defence Council, including an ex-convict jailed for war crimes by the Hague Tribunal.
In the four years from 2016 to 2020, Serbia and Kosovo have identified just 50 of more than 1,600 missing persons from the Kosovo war, a new report says.
The Serbian National Council, which represents the Serb minority in Croatia, warned that threats, hate speech and violence against Serbs in the country persist, despite a lower number of cases being registered in 2020.
Croatia's WWII fascist state was established 80 years ago and its legacy was revived by nationalists during the 1990s war years - and even today there are still street names that celebrate its officials and public figures who supported it.
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.
Over 220 women who applied to a Kosovo government committee to verify victims of wartime sexual violence have been rejected, showing how difficult it can be to establish facts about assaults that happened more than 20 years ago during the war.