Serbia has demanded that Croatia remove a newly-erected statue honouring a convicted assassin.
The monument to Miro Baresic was unveiled on Sunday July 31,2016 in the seaside village of Drage with two Croatian government ministers in attendance, as well as several far-right supporters
At the unveiling ceremony, Croatia's Culture Minister Zlatko Hasanbegovic described him as "a knight, a hero who sacrificed his whole life for the idea of the Croatian state"
A Swedish court convicted Baresic of murdering Yugoslav ambassador Vladimir Rolovic in Stockholm in 1971, sentencing him to life in prison
Miro Baresic's 1971 Swedish imprisonment was short-lived - he was freed the following year on the demand of a Croatian far-right group which had hijacked a Scandinavian Airlines aircraft. After a period spent in Paraguay, he was extradited back to Sweden and given a reduced prison sentence in 1980.
Miro Baresic died in 1991 while fighting in the Balkans war, and is considered a hero among Croatian nationalists.
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