The UN court’s retrial of senior Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic for wartime crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina resumed after a break of almost six months caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
President Aleksandar Vucic said that Serbia and Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska will build a memorial complex together to honour the victims of the World War II Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia.
BIRN’s analysis of Hague Tribunal evidence has revealed which Croatian military and police units were deployed in villages where Serb civilians were killed during and after 1995’s Operation Storm - but none of their commanders has ever been indicted.
Svetozar Andric, a wartime Bosnian Serb Army brigade commander who was accused of expelling Bosniaks from the town of Zvornik, was officially confirmed as a member of the Serbian parliament after the recent elections.
Amnesty International and the European Commission have expressed deep concern about what Amnesty called Serbia's ‘intimidating’ investigation into the finances of 57 NGO and individuals in Serbia – including BIRN.
A department of Serbia’s finance ministry tasked with tackling money laundering and terrorism financing has asked banks to hand over data about the transactions of dozens of individuals and NGOs known for their work on human rights, transparency and exposing corruption.
Almost half the trial hearings have been postponed by the Belgrade court in the case against eight former Bosnian Serb special policeman accused of taking part in the executions of over 1,000 Bosniaks from Srebrenica 25 years ago.
A Belgrade court sentenced Husein Mujanovic to ten years in jail for beating Serb prisoners at a Bosnian Army-run military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during wartime.
A former inmate’s daughter testified that ex-soldier Osman Osmanovic, who is accused of war crimes against prisoners, was a supervisor at a detention camp in the Brcko area of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.
Bosnian Serb Army ex-serviceman Milan Dragisic was found guilty of killing one civilian and trying to kill two others in Bosanski Petrovac during the Bosnian war in September 1992.
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