The remains of at least nine suspected Kosovo war victims have been found in a mass grave in an old open-cast mine in Kizevak in south-western Serbia, officials said as the exhumation was completed.
Twenty-one years after a massacre by Yugoslav Army soldiers in Kosovo, the trial of the alleged perpetrators is still ongoing and a Serbian court has ruled that senior commanders cannot be held legally responsible for crimes committed by their subordinates.
Delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic made the slow progress of war crimes trials in Serbia even slower in 2020, delaying justice even longer, says a new report by the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre.
A Belgrade court found former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Dalibor Krstovic of raping a Bosniak woman who was being held prisoner at a school in Kalinovik in south-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.
In the four years from 2016 to 2020, Serbia and Kosovo have identified just 50 of more than 1,600 missing persons from the Kosovo war, a new report says.
A Serbian court found former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Milos Cajevic guilty of forcing two brothers to have sex with each other at a prison camp in the Bosnian town of Brcko during the war in 1992.
An alleged former Kosovo Liberation Army fighter, Nezir Mehmetaj, went on trial in Belgrade for participating in the killing of seven people and for looting and burning houses in June and July 1999.
Serbia granted citizenship to Bosnian Serb war crimes defendant Mirko Vrucinic two months before he absconded from Bosnia and Herzegovina and failed to appear in court for closing arguments in his trial.
European parliamentarians adopted reports calling on Serbia and Kosovo to do more to investigate suspected wartime grave sites and resolve hundreds of remaining missing persons cases from the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
On a programme to mark the anniversary of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, freed Hague Tribunal convicts Nikola Sainovic and Vladimir Lazarevic told Radio-Television Serbia they were not responsible for war crimes against Kosovo Albanian civilians.