Although there have been only a few trials for crimes committed in Vukovar, it is clear from them who was the executioner in the 1991-95 Homeland War and who the victim, said Matic.
The last commander of Vukovar's defence in 1991, Branko Borkovic, said Croatian war veterans could not be satisfied with the war crimes trials because "domestic courts haven't done the job they should have and the Hague tribunal is completing its mandate."
"The problem is also that Serbs from Croatia were tried more than Serbs from Serbia, from which it transpires that a civil war was fought in Croatia and not that military aggression was committed," he said, adding that it was unacceptable that the Ovcara war crime was tried in Belgrade.
The president of the Croatian association of former Serb-run concentration camp inmates, Danijel Rehak, was also dissatisfied with the war crimes trials, saying many criminals were still at large. He was also dissatisfied with the work of Croatian courts and prosecutors, saying they were not interested in the material on war events and the victims' testimonies that war veterans' associations had collected.