Those buried here are all victims of the “massacre of Vukovar”; one of the worst atrocities committed during the 1991 “Domovinski rat” or homeland war, which pitted Croats against Serbs.

VUKOVAR, Croatia – Can Vukovar also be Bykobap? Whether the name of the war-scarred town on the Danube is written in the Latin or Cyrillic alphabet is a sensitive question. Croatia's upcoming ...

Vukovar was a modestly prosperous, sleepy, provincial town in eastern Croatia, near the border with Serbia, noted for its picturesque baroque architecture. That was before the war for Croatia's ...

We visited Vukovar where Kićo grew up, and where he witnessed the death of his 17-year-old brother, Stevo, decapitated when a rocket-launched grenade exploded in their 12th-story apartment on Oct ...

The alleged crimes took place near Vukovar in 1991 and 1992. The town was under siege for three months by Serb forces and experienced some of the worst fighting of the war. A separate trial of six ...

IS ‘VUKOVAR’ SERBIAN propaganda? Or an honest attempt to make an anti-war film about the conflict in the former Yugoslavia? The Croatian government says the movie, opening Friday, is a ...

Vukovar town, following heavy shelling during the war of independence, 1991 Croatia's progress to the European mainstream has been long and difficult, for the country has had to turn the page on ...

who view people like Mr Sljivancanin as a hero and called him the "knight of Vukovar". Although the new regime seems ready to question the role of Serbia in the wars that tore apart the former ...

The Croatian city of Vukovar, on the banks of the Danube, has a painful past. Located on the border with Serbia, it was the scene of the first major battle in the 1990s Balkan wars. Four years ...

I covered Croatia's independence war in 1991 and now I have gone back to Vukovar. It is again a pretty town on the broad sweep of the Danube River. One day soon, this could be the EU's eastern edge.

I covered Croatia's independence war in 1991 and now I have gone back to Vukovar. It is again a pretty town on the broad sweep of the Danube River. One day soon, this could be the EU's eastern edge.