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Serbia marks Krajina exodus | ||
| A religious ceremony
has been held in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, to mark the eighth
anniversary of the exodus of more than 200,000 ethnic Serbs from Croatia
during a Croat military offensive in 1995.
In two days, Croatia retook all the territories where rebel Serbs had succeeded in setting up a self-proclaimed state - the Krajina Republic - four years earlier. Hundreds were killed by the advancing troops. Serbia's Commissioner for Refugees, Ozren Tosic, said in a television interview that only 30,000 Serbs had returned to their homes but the Croatian authorities say that the number is at least 80,000. The United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has indicted three Croatian military officers for crimes against ethnic Serbs in the 1995 offensive. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe last month said Croatian authorities had not done enough to encourage the return of refugees. From the newsroom of the BBC World Service | ||
