The survey was launched by the Documenta centre for confrontation with the past and carried out by the Puls agency on a sample of the general population of Croatia and additional sub-samples of two target groups -- Serbs and Croats from war-affected areas of the country.
Two-thirds of the respondents said war crimes suspects should be investigated and put on trial.
A half of the interviewees believe that Croats are the sole victims of the 1991-1995 war, a third think that casualties on the Croatian side are significantly more numerous than those on the Serb side, while 15 per cent said that Croats and Serbs were equally victims of the war.
The survey shows that 99 per cent of the respondents heard about the destruction of Vukovar, 97 per cent about the killing of Croatian prisoners of war at the Ovcara farm outside Vukovar and about the shelling of Dubrovnik, 89 per cent about the killing of Croatian civilians in the village of Skabrnja, 72 per cent about killings in Lovas, and 86 per cent about torture in the Serb-run detention camp in Sremska Mitrovica.
Sixty-eight per cent heard that Serb civilians had been killed during Croatian operation Storm and 66 per cent heard about killings in the aftermath of the operation, 58 per cent heard about cases of seizure of Serb-owned property, 44 per cent heard about cases of Serb civilians killed in Sisak and 58 per cent heard that Serb civilians had been killed in Osijek.
Over 80 per cent of the respondents who heard of the above events regard them as war crimes.
The survey shows that the level of trust in the Croatian judiciary and the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is not very high.
Over 50 per cent of the respondents said they did not know how many people had been killed during the war.
Half the respondents believe that ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte, the ICTY (49 per cent) and the international community made the greatest contribution to war crimes being investigated by the Croatian authorities.
About 10 per cent think that war crimes investigations were launched thanks to non-governmental organisations and media, followed by Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and his HDZ party (five per cent), President Stjepan Mesic (three per cent), and the late President Franjo Tudjman and the former HDZ-led government (five per cent).