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Two Kosovo Serbs were recently charged with raping women during the war in 1999 – but their indictments highlighted how Kosovo’s courts have not managed to convict anyone of wartime sexual violence in two decades. When Zoran Vukotic, a former Serbian police officer in Kosovo, was charged with earlier this month with raping a 16-year-old […]

A court in the city of Split convicted two former Bosnian Croat fighters of committing war crimes against Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war who were held in detention camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993. Croatian media reported that Split county court found former Croatian Defence Council fighters Marinko Maric and Zeljko Rodin guilty of war crimes against Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war held at detention camps in the Western Herzegovina area from July to September 1993.

An appeals court in Belgrade upheld the verdict sentencing Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of Serbia’s Red Berets special forces unit, to eight years in prison for raping a woman in Brcko in Bosnia in 1992. Belgrade Appeals Court has confirmed a verdict sentencing Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of the Special Operations […]

Prosecutors in Belgrade charged Osman Osmanovic with committing war crimes against Serb civilians and prisoners of war held at the Rasadnik prison camp in Brcko in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution told BIRN that it has charged Osman Osmanovic with committing war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war at […]

A former member of Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic’s paramilitary unit told the retrial of two former Serbian State Security chiefs that weapons for the so-called ‘Tigers’ came from the Yugoslav People’s Army, not the security service.

BIRN has launched a new campaign entitled If You Were Here, which will tell the stories of family members of missing persons from the Balkan wars who are still waiting to discover the fate of their loved ones.

Applications are now open for 2020 Journalism Fellowship.

Serbian Radical Party members threw anti-war activists out of a building in Belgrade where a book by convicted war criminal Vojislav Seselj denying the Srebrenica genocide was being launched. Ultranationalist politician and war criminal Vojislav Seselj and members of his Serbian Radical Party on Wednesday evening physically forced anti-war activists out of a building in […]

As efforts continue to finally make Sarajevo landmine-free this year, Bosnia’s demining experts explain how they deal with facing death or injury every day – and why they dedicate their lives to such a dangerous job. It’s 16 minutes past midday on Christmas Eve, and Sead Vrana sends me a text on Viber, seeking to […]

Former Bosnian Serb fighter Mico Jovicic became the first witness to testify that five fellow Serb ex-fighters were involved in the kidnapping and killing of 20 passengers from a train at Strpci in Bosnia in 1993. Mico Jovicic, a wartime volunteer fighter for Bosnian Serb forces, told Belgrade Higher Court that all five defendants on trial for the kidnapping and killing of 20 passengers from a train at Strpci station in Bosnia and Herzegovina were at the crime scenes when the offences were committed.

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Kosovo War Rape Survivors Still Waiting for First Convictions

Croatia Convicts Bosnian Croats of Detention Camp Crimes

Serbia Confirms ‘Red Berets’ Fighter’s Wartime Rape Conviction

Serbia Indicts Bosnian Ex-Soldier for Crimes Against Prisoners

Yugoslav Army ‘Supplied Weapons for Arkan’s Tigers’

BIRN Launches ‘If You Were Here’ Missing Persons Campaign

Applications Open for 2020 Journalism Fellowship

Serbian Nationalists Clash with Activists over Srebrenica Book

For Bosnia’s Landmine Clearers, Hope is Stronger than Fear

Tensions Flare as Bosnian Serb Accuses Fellow Ex-Fighters of Massacre

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