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Croatian jurist and ex-President Ivo Josipovic told BIRN that a Zagreb court’s decision to reduce the prison sentence given to former Croatian Defence Council officer Marko Radic does not reflect the gravity of his crime. The court in October cut Radic’s sentence for committing crimes against humanity against Bosniaks in the Mostar area of Bosnia […]

Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Kosovo will sign a new plan committing them to working together to help find and identify the remaining missing persons from the 1990s wars, writes Kathryne Bomberger of the International Commission on Missing Persons.

Serbia’s Appeals Court confirmed the indictment of five Bosnian Serb ex-fighters accused of killing 20 passengers abducted from a train in Strpci in Bosnia in 1993 - over three years after the prosecution charged them.

Chemseddine Berafta dreams of playing football for a living in Italy one day – but in the meantime he is helping a local family run a hair salon in the Bosnian border town of Velika Kladusa.

A Bosnian Serb ex-soldier told a Belgrade court how he helped to conceal the bodies of several hundred Bosniaks from Srebrenica after a night-long mass execution in a hangar in the village of Kravica in 1995. Former Bosnian Serb soldier Zoran Eric told Belgrade Higher Court on Wednesday that he helped cover the bodies of 200 to 300 Srebrenica victims with hay after a night of mass shootings at an agricultural farm in Kravica in Bosnia in July 1995.

Twenty-five years ago, an NGO began giving bereaved and traumatised Bosnian women a helping hand.

Serbian police closed the camp run by war veterans on Mount Zlatibor that gave military training to children as young as 14, citing concerns about the possible abuse of minors.

If Spain adopts a new historical memory law, the tombs of Croatia’s World War II Fascist leaders Ante Pavelic and Vjekoslav Maks Luburic may have to move to less prominent sites, or back to their native Bosnia. If Spain’s centre-left-led government adopts an announced law on historical memory, designed to deal with the memory of […]

A protected witness told the court at the landmark trial in Belgrade for the Srebrenica killings how he witnessed the mass shooting of Bosniak men in a hangar in the village of Kravica in 1995. Belgrade Higher Court on Friday heard testimony from a protected witness codenamed ‘302’, a former Bosnian Serb fighter who described how Serb forces killed captured Bosniak men from Srebrenica in the nearby village of Kravica.

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After a video of executions in Cameroon featured what seemed to be soldiers using Serbian-made arms, Amnesty International has asked Serbia to stop exporting weapons to the country.

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Zagreb Sentence for Bosnian Croat ‘Inadequate’: Josipovic

It’s Not Too Late to Find Wartime Missing Persons

Serbian Court Confirms Strpci Train Massacre Indictment

Young Algerian Finds Bosnia a Hair-Raising Experience

Ex-Soldier Recalls Night-Long Execution of Srebrenica Bosniaks

Brick by Brick: The Women Helping Bosnia Heal

Serbian Police Close Military-Style Children’s Camp

Spanish Law May Mean Moving Croatian Fascist Tombs

Srebrenica Eyewitness Tells Belgrade Court about Executions

Serbia Urged to Stop Selling Arms to Cameroon

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