Wednesday, 19 February 2025.

Serb Fighters’ Retrial for Strpci Wartime Abductions Delayed

The start of the retrial of four wartime Serb fighters for their role in the abduction and execution of 20 non-Serb passengers seized from a train in Strpci in Bosnia in 1993 was postponed – another delay in the long-running legal process.

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Bosnian Serb Wartime Policeman Tells Court of Prisoner Executions

At the start of his trial in Belgrade for the killing of 51 non-Serbs in 1992, former reservist policeman Milorad Kotur explained how prisoners were taken from the Omarska detention camp and then shot dead.

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Vital Witness in Bosnia Train Massacre Trial Cleared to Testify

Medical experts said that a prosecution witness in the trial of four Serb ex-fighters accused of abducting passengers from a train at Strpci station during the Bosnian war and killing them is mentally capable of testifying.

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Female Bosnian Serb Fighter Given Alibi in Train Massacre Trial

A witness told a Belgrade court that alleged paramilitary Dragana Djekic was with her on the day in February 1993 when 20 people were abducted from a passenger train in Strpci in Bosnia and then killed.

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Witness Reverses Testimony Incriminating Bosnian Serb Soldiers

A witness at the trial in Belgrade of two former Bosnian Serb soldiers accused of participating in killing 27 Bosniak civilians in 1992 said that that his previous testimony incriminating the defendants was false.

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War Games: Replaying Yugoslavia’s Military Conflicts as Entertainment

Battlefield scenarios from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th Century are used in various board games and video games, but while some of them offer the opportunity to play with history, others distort the facts completely.

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Portraits of Bosnian ‘Children of War’ Exhibited in Belgrade

An exhibition of photographic portraits of Bosnians who were born as a result the 1992-95 war and their mothers went on display in the Serbian capital.

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Serbian President Voices Praise for Radovan Karadzic Associate

President Aleksandar Vucic made a speech at the launch of the collected works of Serbian historian Milorad Ekmecic, who was a close associate of Bosnian Serb wartime political leader Radovan Karadzic.

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Serbian Security Officials’ Appeal Hearing Set for January

New president of UN war crimes court says oral hearing on the appeal on the guilty verdict against Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic will be held in January.

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Bosnian Serb Accused of War Crimes Becomes Belgrade Councillor

Svetozar Andric, a wartime Bosnian Serb Army brigade commander who has been accused of expelling Bosniaks from the town of Zvornik, was elected as a member of the Belgrade City Council.

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