 In a cherry orchard blooming with white blossom, Stevan Graovac, 60, climbs down from the tree he has been living in. Around the tree trunk, and under a tented roof, is his daily living quarters, complete with table and chair and food shelf. A special platform is perched high in the branches, with a mattress and sleeping bag. A ladder connects the two "rooms". The two-storey tree house has been his main home for the past three years. "I was forced here by circumstance. My own house was occupied and I had no choice. It's not been nice and it's not been comfortable. But at least it's mine," Mr Graovac tells me. He left his home in the nearby village in 1995 when, in Operation Storm, Croat forces took back territory that had been under Serb control during the war. The UN refugee agency UNHCR estimates about 300,000 Serbs fled Croatia during the conflict and only about one-third have returned....
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