DORH issued a statement citing its activities aimed at bringing war criminals to justice.
According to the statement, DORH has requested the launching of investigations against commanders of the detention camps in Begejci and Stajicevo in Serbia.
In addition, dozens of witnesses have been questioned as part of investigations into war crimes committed in detention camps in Serbia and Serb-held areas of Croatia after the outbreak of the war in Croatia in the early 1990s.
DORH recalls that guards Ivica Vuletic and Slobodan Bacic from the Stajicevo and Begejci camps were given prison sentences. Vuletic is serving his in Serbia.
The association of lawyers from Vukovar, "Udruga pravnika Vukovar 1991", has warned that a year has gone by since it pressed charges in Belgrade against unidentified perpetrators of war crimes against civilians and POWs in camps in Serbia from October 1991 to August 1992 and that Croatian prosecutors and the Justice Ministry have not yet forwarded to Serbia the documentation necessary for launching court proceedings against those responsible.
"Although State Attorney Mladen Bajic said that crimes against Croats in camps in Serbia must be prosecuted, he still hasn't done anything. We want him to do his job and forward our testimonies to the Serbian Wart Crimes Prosecution after 19 years," the association's president, Zoran Sangut, told a news conference in Zagreb on Friday.
He said that Serbian authorities said they were waiting for documents from Croatia, namely for the testimonies of surviving camp inmates.
The documents filed for this purpose cover crimes committed in camps run by the Serbian authorities and the then Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) at Stajicevo, Srijemska Mitrovica, Begejci, Nis and the Belgrade-based military prison.