Linta has been a prominent figure in calling for the prosecution of Croatian officials guilty of
war crimes against Serbs during the
early 1990s conflict between Serbia and Croatia and has sought to uphold the political and property rights of Serbs displaced from their homes in Croatia over the course of the conflict. In May 2010, Linta led the Serb Democratic Forum in filing war crime charges with the Croatian state prosecution against six persons alleged to have been responsible for the
ethnic cleansing of Serbs from twenty-six villages in 1991. He later approved the decision of Serbian prosecutors to indict Croatian officials for war crimes committed against Serbs in
Vukovar during the same year. He welcomed the conviction of
Croatian lieutenant general Ante Gotovina by the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in April 2011, saying that the ruling acknowledged that there was
ethnic cleansing perpetrated against Serbs in Croatia. He subsequently led a protest march through Belgrade after Gotovina's conviction was overturned in late 2012, and he condemned
Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović's decision to appoint Gotovina as an advisor in 2015. Linta opposed the
European Parliament's declaration on the
Srebrenica massacre as an act of
genocide. He acknowledged that Serb forces had perpetrated a significant war crime in Srebrenica but argued that to emphasize one crime over others would not contribute to reconciliation in the region. He instead urged the Serbian parliament to approve a resolution condemning all crimes committed during the Yugoslav Wars and called for "all those who committed war crimes, regardless of ethnic and religious belonging [to] be brought to justice." Linta encouraged
Croatian Serb refugees to participate in the
2009 Croatian local elections, so as to permit Serb representatives to serve in positions of local authority and allow for the exercise of minority rights in the country. He and other Serb community leaders were subsequently prohibited from entering Croatia in November 2011 to attend an election rally for the group
Our Party from Borovo in Vukovar. The
Croatian ministry of the interior asserted that their presence would upset local residents and could disturb the public order. Linta protested the decision and called on the Croatian government to condemn the ministry's actions; his response was supported by the Progressive Party leadership. He submitted an
open letter to the Croatian Embassy in
Belgrade in May 2011, expressing "regret that the Croatian parliament has not adopted a declaration on respect for the human rights of the expelled Serbs." He was quoted at the time as saying, "Unfortunately, Serbs in Croatia are still treated as second-class citizens. Croatian authorities are not showing the will to find a comprehensive and lasting solution to the refugee issue." He wrote an open letter to
German chancellor Angela Merkel shortly thereafter, requesting her assistance in the matter. Linta expressed concern in late 2013 that pro-
Ustaša beliefs were becoming normalized in Croatia, with anti-Serb sentiments being prevalent in some aspects of society. The following year, he criticized Croatian president Grabar-Kitarović for saying that Serbs who lived in Croatia were in fact Croats, describing the statement as chauvinist and provocative. On another occasion, he described the Croatian state's actions against Serb communities in the early 1990s as
genocidal, saying, "Mass crimes against Serbs... were part of the Croatian leaders' plan aimed at eliminating Serbs so they would disappear from areas where they lived for centuries. In September 2015, Linta joined other delegates from Serbia and Croatia in commemorating the deaths of sixteen elderly Serb civilians in
Varivode and
Gošić in the aftermath of
Operation Storm. ==Parliamentarian==