Milica Stojanović, Author at Detektor

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.

Since hundreds of Balkan extremists went abroad to fight for Islamic State and other militant groups, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia have come under increased international pressure to clamp down on the financing of terrorism.

Former brigade commander Rajko Kusic went on trial in Belgrade for ordering attacks on non-Serb civilians in the Rogatica area of Bosnia during the war, resulting in crimes including 150 killings, torture and rape.

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Balkans states might be prepared on paper, but in practice they are struggling to confront the growing threat from cyber-attacks. Bosnia doesn’t have a state-level strategy.

A Belgrade court ruled that the case of Husein Mujanovic, sentenced to ten years in prison for beating Serbs at a prison near Sarajevo in 1992, will have to go to a retrial.

New research documents more than 600 detention camps, prisons or other jail facilities that operated during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina - many more than have been documented by court verdicts.

A court in Belgrade upheld the verdict sentencing former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Zeljko Maricic to two years in prison for beating up Bosniak prisoners in the town of Kljuc in May 1992.

A court in the Serbian capital delivered a final verdict sentencing ex-soldier Milan Dragisic to five years in prison for killing one civilian and attempting to kill two others in Bosanski Petrovac during the Bosnian war in 1992.

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Former Bosnian Serb fighter Zeljko Budimir was jailed for two years after a retrial in Belgrade for assaulting and robbing a Bosniak civilian in Bosnia’s Kljuc municipality during wartime in November 1992.

Since the fall of the Islamic State ‘caliphate’, piecemeal efforts by Balkan states to repatriate their nationals from refugee camps in Syria means more than 100 children are still living in squalid, unsafe conditions.

Milica Stojanović

Serbian Security Chiefs’ Retrial Resumes after Six-Month Halt

Balkan States Under Pressure to Prosecute Financiers of Terrorism

Bosnian Serb Ex-Officer Pleads Not Guilty at Belgrade Court

Cyber-Attacks a Growing Threat to Unprepared Balkan States

Serbian Court Quashes Bosniak Military Prison Chief’s Conviction

600 Bosnian War Detention Sites Documented in New Research

Bosnian Serb Soldier’s Conviction for Beating Prisoners Upheld

Belgrade Court Increases Bosnian Serb Soldier’s War Crime Sentence

Serbian Court Convicts Bosnian Serb of Wartime Assault, Robbery

Slow Pace of Balkan Repatriation Leaves Over 100 Children in Syrian Camps

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