3. July 2019.
Faced with a growing bottleneck in its northwest, Bosnia has moved hundreds of migrants and refugees to an isolated forest camp despite the threat from landmines, fire and sickness.
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18. June 2019.
In the defence’s opening statement at the retrial of former Serbian state security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, Stanisic’s lawyer told the court his client was not involved in commanding units deployed to Bosnia or Croatia.
14. June 2019.
Bratislav Zivkovic has made no secret of his ties to Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but prosecutors in Serbia dropped an investigation against him.
12. June 2019.
A former Bosnian Serb deputy interior minister told the trial of eight Serb ex-policemen that army security chief Ljubisa Beara triggered a massacre of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in the village of Kravica in 1995.
Tomislav Kovac, who was deputy interior minister in the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity in July 1995, when the Kravica massacre happened, told Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday that Ljubisa Beara, who at the time was the security chief of the Main Headquarters of the Bosnian Serb Army, was to blame for the killings.
15. May 2019.
Two Serbian Radical Party politicians are refusing to travel to The Hague to face contempt-of-court proceedings after the UN court revoked its decision to allow a trial in Belgrade because witnesses said they feared for their safety.
7. May 2019.
Thousands of Bosnians who suffered in wartime detention camps still receive no assistance from the authorities because the country’s state-level law on torture victims is being obstructed by an ethnically-based political dispute.
24. April 2019.
A Serbian court sentenced a former Bosnian Serb fighter to four years in prison for killing one Bosniak civilian and trying to kill two others in Bosanski Petrovac in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.
Belgrade Higher Court on Wednesday sentenced Milan Dragisic, a former soldier in the Bosnian Serb Army, to four years in prison for killing a Bosniak civilian and attempting to murder two others on September 20, 1992 during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
22. April 2019.
An organisation led by convicted war criminal Momcilo Krajisnik has received over 40,000 euros in public funding from the government in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska.
16. March 2019.
A new behind-the-scenes documentary tracking the marathon trial of Ratko Mladic has upset some by depicting the genocide defendant as a human being, not a monster - but its director says it’s necessary to understand why people commit terrible crimes.
26. February 2019.
Convicted war criminal Vojislav Seselj rallied his supporters in front of Belgrade’s Higher Court ahead of a hearing in the trial of Serb ex-policemen for the massacre of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in the village of Kravica in 1995.
Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj on Tuesday rallied around 50 supporters, who waved party flags and wore badges denying the Srebrenica genocide, in front of the Belgrade Higher Court, where a war crimes trial hearing was about to begin.
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