Belgrade opens war crimes trial of Croatian Air Force Pilots

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Belgrade opens war crimes trial of Croatian Air Force Pilots  Belgrade begins war crimes trial of four Croatian Air Force pilots accused of firing rockets at Serbian refugee columns in August 1995.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/03/29/belgrade-opens-war-crimes-trial-of-croatian-air-force-pilots  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Serbia launched the first main hearing of the trial of four Croatian Air Force pilots

00:06accused of committing war crimes in August 1995.

00:11The pilots are accused of firing rockets from fighter jets at columns of Serb refugees on

00:15Petrovac Road during Croatia's war of independence.

00:20The campaign, in collaboration with the V Corps of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia

00:24and Herzegovina, was titled Operation Storm.

00:28Thirteen people were killed over the two-day campaign, with six of the victims being children

00:33under the age of 13.

00:36Two dozen others were injured as Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter jets shelled the refugee convoys.

00:43The accused pilots will be tried in absentia as they've been unavailable to Serbian judicial

00:47authorities since the beginning of the investigation in 2021.

00:52The trial will take place in the War Crimes Department of the High Court in the Serbian

00:55capital Belgrade.

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