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Wielding hammers, Croatian war veterans have torn down signs written in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet that were put up on official buildings to boost minority rights in the new EU nation. … Vukovar has a sizable Serb minority and having official signs in both the Croatian Latin alphabet and Serbian Cyrillic are in line with the country’s law on minority rights. …

... "If you stole a car today you would get a harsher sentence than what they got for the biggest crime that was committed here in the past 50 years," he said. ...

A former Serb soldier admitted at a trial Tuesday that he and other paramilitaries had executed about 200 Croat prisoners of war at a pig farm in 1991. Ivan Atanasijevic's testimony was the first open admission of the slaughter by one of the 16 defendants at the landmark war crimes trial in a special court in Belgrade. Since the trial started in December 2003, only a protected Serb witness has admitted taking part in one of the worst massacres of POWs during the brutal Balkan wars in the 1990s. During the fighting in late 1991, the Serb-controlled Yugoslav army advanced...

Fourteen years on from a conflict that raged as Yugoslavia began to fall apart, taking more than 200,000 lives with it, the destruction in this once pretty Croatian region is still visible.... The Serbs and Croats who rose up against one another here are living in their old homes again, but with new neighbors.... Take Slobodan Davidovic, an ethnic Serb, former waiter and part-time construction worker from a small village to the south of Vukovar, about three miles from the Serbian border. Mr. Davidovic's war caught up with him this month in the most public of ways - he appeared...

At a special United Nations session, held on Monday, in New York, to commemorative the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pierre Pettigrew, told the assembly, "It happened, in my mind, because the greatest evil is indifference." Over 6 million Jews were systematically murdered during the Holocaust. Millions perished during World War II. ‘Never again!’ is how Pettigrew ended his eloquent speech, parroting the theme, started by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Earlier Annan declared that, "Such an evil must never be allowed to happen again," and urged the world body that,...

BANJA LUKA, December 1 (FENA) – RS President Dragan Cavic thinks that the discovery of 5,000 cards with information on Serb victims during the war in Sarajevo will represent a credibility test for politicians in FBiH in the process of reaching the truth. Cavic said that the discovered documents should set off the establishment of the commission for investigating events in Sarajevo during the war. East Sarajevo Public Security Centre Chief Dragomir Andan said yesterday that 5.000 cards have been discovered with information on Serb victims during the war in Sarajevo. “The cards cite places of burial of the victims,...

Landmark War Crimes Trial Tests Serbia's Ability to Deliver Justice for Balkans Atrocities Mar 9, 2004 By Katarina Kratovac/ Associated Press Writer BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - A landmark war crimes trial opened Tuesday for six Serbs accused of slaughtering 192 Croatian prisoners during the Balkan conflicts, a key test of Serbia's ability to find justice for its wartime atrocities. The trial over the killings in Vukovar, Croatia - a notorious massacre in the fighting that broke apart Yugoslavia - comes amid a resurgence of nationalist sentiment in the Serb republic, now run by a prime minister who opposes the U.N....

THE VAMPIRE NURSE OF VUKOVAR VESNA BOSANAC http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/politics/war_crimes/vukovar/vukovar9d.html Involuntary blood taking from Vukovar Serbs In the Vukovar Hospital, which was between 30 July and 19 November 1991 managed by Dr. Vesna BOSANAC, many serious abuses of medical ethics and international law of war have been committed - from refusal to provide adequate medical treatment to wounded Serb civilians and members of the Serb territorial defense to physical liquidation. Among the gravest crimes committed in the Vukovar Hospital, which are that more serious since some perpetrators were physicians, is involuntary blood taking from Serb civilians, who were for this particular...

Hiding Genocide The Balkan Conflict: The Psychological Strategy AspectsDefense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy Volume XX, Number 12, December 31, 1992 p.4-9 Croatia has resumed its "liquidation" of Serbs, while arguing that "ethnic cleansing" is a Serbian creation . . . "The Big Lie" technique is alive and well. Croatia has used the media and skilful image manipulation to hide its renewed genocide against the Serbs while at the same time ensuring that Serbs are themselves wrongly accused of the same type of crime, and more. Editor-in-Chief Gregory Copley reports from the Balkans. Twice before in this Century there have...