Trials for crimes against Serbs expected

Zagreb, Belgrade, July 02 (Source: B92) - The Croatian State Prosecutor’s Office is expected to begin investigations into 1995 war crimes.

President of the Helsinki Council in Croatia, Žarko Puhovski, told the daily Građanski list that he is not sure who the investigation will be against, and whether the cases will be joined, but said that “they will definitely be carried out because the state prosecutor’s office has done its job.”

Puhovski said that trials related to operation Storm of 1995, in which many Serbian civilians were killed, are expected to begin in the spring of next year. “As far as I know, these cases will be related to events in the Knin region in August 1995.

There will also be a trial for events taking place in Bogićevci, near Pakraca, in May 1995,” he said. Puhovski added that two more exhumations will be conducted in Croatia this year.

Serbian Prosecutor’s Office official Bruno Vekarić told the daily that the prosecution is working on several cases related to the war crimes against Serbs in 1995 and that cooperation with their colleagues in Croatia will enable them to begin new processes, adding that if Croatia does not take part in the work, the Serbian prosecutor’s office will react and take on the investigations itself.

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