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Seems you missed the news of the Medak Pocket trial in Croatia where Croats testify that medical evidence proves most of the killed were civilians who were heavily tortured:

http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=84876

Witness: Woman Was Impaled Alive

Retired Croatian colonel Marko Jagetic says that 70 bodies of Serb civilians were collected after the campaign Medacki Dzep.

Retired Croatian Army medical corps colonel Marko Jagetic testified at the trial of generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac. He said that, after the campaign Medacki Dzep, more than 70 corpses of Serb civilians were collected in nearby villages and that many of them had marks that indicated torture and massacre.

- Almost all the executed [people] were civilians and no weapons or documents were found on any of them – said Jagetic, who was the army doctor in charge of the team that collected the bodies of the dead after the campaign.

Following the order of Kornelije Brkic, the head of medical corps at central command, he was to find 52 bodies for a trade, but those bodies could not have signs of torture or abuse. He says that Brkic told him that, if the opposite were the case, his own body may end up in the group for the exchange.

Most bodies had gunshot wounds that, as the witness says, could not have been afflicted from close proximity. There were, however, many cuts, says Jagetic, adding that many of the injuries pointed to heavy torture and a massacre of civilians.

For instance, on the body of Andjelija Jovic, he saw injuries caused by the victim being impaled alive. Former head of forensic medicine in Rijeka Renata Dobi-Babic also confirmed this to him. She was at the helm of the medical team in charge of getting the 52 bodies ready for the exchange.

Jagetic: It was important to move the bodies before UNPROFOR arrived

The bodies that could not be traded because they had torture marks were buried using a mechanical shovel near Gospic or thrown into septic tanks.

- Command was not interested [in knowing] what would happen with the bodies that were not going to be traded. The only thing that was important was that all the bodies be moved from the zone UNPROFOR was entering – said Jagetic.

He also said that there were more men than women among the victims, “mostly middle-aged people.”

He added that, in the field, he saw traces of torture, two men hanged from a tree with a chain and a rope, and that he discovered remains of a human spine and pelvis on a site where a house had burned down.

He also heard about the crimes from soldiers and, a year after the campaign, one of the soldiers had recalled that they had roasted a lamb under the bodies of the two hanged civilians.

- When UNPROFOR started entering the area, they excavated a chetnik leader who had been cut to pieces alive for two hours. He was then put in a trench, covered with earth and a mechanical shovel passed over him – testified Jagetic.

He also said that, in the course of the campaign, houses were pillaged and burned down and cattle was taken away.

Norac: Jagetic was forced to retire because he liked to have a few and this is why he is resentful

Jagetic says that, during the conflict, he sometimes felt that it was admiral Davor Domazet Loso who commanded the campaign who, in his words, ordered artillery attacks on Udbina and Korenica.

- UNPROFOR asked that the fire be ceased and they threatened to start bombing our towns too – said Jagetic.

After his testimony, accused general Norac said that it was not true that the discovered bodies were civilians because Serbian soldiers changed into civilian clothes. He added that he found Jagetic’s testimony pretentious and lacking credibility.

- Jagetic had to retire because he liked to have a few, so he is resentful – said Norac, to which the witness smiled and said that he did not feel it necessary to comment.

Residents of the villages around Medacki Dzep – Mile Drca, Milan Pavlica, Milka Radakovic and Nikola Vidovic – were supposed to testify before Jagetic, but none of them appeared in court.

Pavlica had passed away and the remaining three either did not receive subpoenas or were not found at their addressed in Serbia.
 

@ anonymous: You may have noticed I don't ordinarily allow anonymous comments, but in this instance, because you provided an English language source, I have allowed it. This case has been all over all the news services in the local language, but indeed due to recent movements, I missed sources in English, primarily this blog is in the English language, and the sources I had were T.V. sources only.
I appreciate your having provided this information in English.