About 100 protestors stopped in front of the embassy and attached paper slips with the names of missing Croatian Serbs to the branches of trees along Kneza Milosa Street where the embassy is located.
Associations of Serb families whose members went missing in Croatia during the 1990s war claim that 2,627 Serbs disappeared at the said time.
The protestors then proceeded towards the office of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), located in the residential area of Dedinje. They presented the UNMIK office with a list of names of 745 Serbs who went missing in Kosovo.
The leader of the association gathering the families of missing Serbs from Croatia, Cedomir Maric, released a white dove in front of the Croatian embassy explaining it as a sign of "the families' wish to know what happened to their dearest ones".
Maric conveyed the families' dissatisfaction with the pace of exhumations in Croatia.
"Since 2002 not a single grave containing the bodies of Serbs has been unearthed in Croatia, although there are 24 registered graves. We are going to send messages of this kind until we receive answers. (...) They (missing Serbs) are citizens of Croatia and they should have equal treatment. We do not want to politicise the problem, we need answers," Maric told reporters.
The head of the Serbian-Montenegrin commission for the missing persons, Gvozden Gagic, also criticised Croatian authorities for lack of cooperation in this field.
Croatia persistently refuses to compile a single list of persons who went missing on its territory. Consequently, 2,500 persons who disappeared primarily during the (1995) Flash and Storm operations are registered nowhere, Gagic told the Belgrade-based B92 radio.
Belgrade media on Tuesday reported that according to some estimates 23,000 people from the area of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are still registered as missing. Of this number, 3,300 are citizens of Serbia and Montenegro.