The war crimes arrest of Bosnian Army Fifth Corps ex-commander Atif Dudakovic was criticised by some Bosniak politicians but welcomed by Serbs, again highlighting the country’s ethnic divisions.
The interior ministry banned a rally that Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj planned in the village of Hrtkovci, where he made nationalist speeches in 1992 that got him convicted of war crimes.
In its latest report on former Yugoslav states, the European Commission warns about setbacks and standstills in the prosecution of war crimes and delays in access to justice for victims of the 1990s wars.
Bosnians gathered in the villages of Ahmici and Trusina to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the war crimes committed there against Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats.
Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj said that he will not resign as an MP despite his war crimes conviction, which legally disqualifies him from sitting in parliament.
A former prison camp inmate told a Croatian court that he believed Bosnian Croat officials Marinko Maric and Zeljko Rodin, accused of war crimes against Bosniak prisoners in 1993, violently interrogated detainees.
The Serbian war crimes prosecution’s draft strategy for 2018-2023 does not define priorities for prosecutions, indicators for measuring success, or deadlines for accomplishing objectives, rights campaigners claim.
For over a decade, war crimes prosecutors in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia have shown little enthusiasm for prosecuting alleged criminals whose case files were sent to them by the UN tribunal in The Hague.
Posters of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic have been put up at a municipality building in East Sarajevo, in what the mayor said was a gesture of support for the war crimes defendant.
The EULEX prosecutor in the trial in Kosovo of Naser Kelmendi – who was found guilty of running a drugs operation but not of murder – says witnesses brave enough to testify received death threats.