The Education Ministry said it will investigate after videos were published by media showing pupils dancing to a nationalist, anti-Bosnian Muslim song at a school end-of-year celebration in the Serbian city of Novi Sad.
Serbia plans to prosecute four Croatian officers in their absence for air attacks on a convoy of fleeing refugees in 1995 – but experts say that because Zagreb is not cooperating with Belgrade, the case is likely to be flawed.
American photographer Ron Haviv’s images of detention camps where prisoners were abused and killed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war have gone on display in the Serbian capital Belgrade.
The start of the high-profile trial of Bosnian Serb Army Drina Corps commander Milenko Zivanovic, already the focus of controversy, was postponed after Bosnian prosecutors offered to transfer the case to Serbia instead of pursuing their own trial.
Milenko Zivanovic, wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, was indicted in both Bosnia and Serbia, almost simultaneously, for similar crimes in Srebrenica in 1995, raising questions about the motives behind the charges.
Three witnesses testified that Danko Vladicic, who is on trial for killing a Bosniak couple near Foca in Bosnia in August 1992, was selling petrol and cigarettes on the streets of Belgrade around the time of the crime.
The trial for the killings of 20 passengers seized from a train in Bosnia in 1993 was delayed again as the court ruled that a former Bosnian Serb soldier must now be tried separately because of illness.
A Belgrade court sentenced Husein Mujanovic to ten years in prison after a retrial for assaulting Serb prisoners at a Bosnian Army-run military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during wartime.
The wartime commander of the Drina Corps, Milenko Zivanovic, will go on trial next month in Serbia for forcing Bosniak civilians out of Srebrenica during the Bosnian Serb Army’s offensive in July 1995.