In an interview aired on the television network B92, Vekaric said that the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor had contacted the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor of Croatia (DORH) about the case, that DORH too was interested in whether the Serbian side had any information on the case, and that together they would try to identify those responsible for the crime.

Commenting on why the Danish soldier had waited so long to speak up about the crime at Dvor, Vekaric said he believed that the recent verdict by the Hague war crimes tribunal against Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac "has opened Pandora's box, prompting people" to start talking about crimes.

The Danish BT television network on Sunday aired an interview with a Danish soldier who said that Danish UN peace-keeping troops stationed in Croatia in 1995 failed to respond when a large number of people wearing camouflage uniforms shot dead before their very eyes nine handicapped people who had found shelter in a schoolhouse in Dvor. Neither the text nor the video footage on the Danish TV network made mention of the perpetrators' identity.

The county prosecutor's office in the Croatian city of Sisak said today that it had requested a police investigation into a grave war crime committed in Dvor in 1995, but that the identity of the perpetrators, who at the time killed a man and his wife and ten mentally handicapped people, was still not known.

The Sisak County police department in September 2006 submitted to the local prosecutor's office a report on a war crime against civilians committed by unknown perpetrators, believed to be members of Croatian Serb paramilitary forces, who on 8 August 1995, while withdrawing from Dvor, killed a man and his wife and ten mentally handicapped people accommodated in the local primary school. The victims were previously brought to the school from Petrinja, according to a statement published on DORH's web site.

Speaking of a case concerning collection centres and camps in Serbia, Vekaric said that the case had been in a pre-trial stage for two and a half years, that intensive work on it was under way, and that a lot of information had been exchanged with DORH.

Asked what was the difference between the terms "collection centre" and "camp", Vekaric said he believed that there was a difference in the approach and that the terms were insisted on because both Croatia and Serbia would be dealing with that topic before the International Court of Justice.

"That something like that existed is beyond dispute, what is disputable is who is responsible for what happened to the people (in those camps). That is what we are investigating," said Vekaric.

Vekaric also commented on a regional initiative to form a commission that would establish facts about war crimes and other serious human rights violations committed in the former Yugoslavia in the period between 1991 and 2001. The commission, known under the acronym RECOM, would be an independent inter-state, out-of-court body tasked with establishing and making public facts about the past war events and its establishment is advocated by more than 1,500 associations and individuals of all nationalities and religions from the former Yugoslavia, who make up the Coalition for RECOM.

Vekaric said that the Serbian war crimes prosecutor had officially supported the initiative and considered it to be very useful.