Saturday, 19 april 2025.
Taboo-Busting Literature has ‘Liberating Potential’, Says Serbian Author
Sasa Ilic, whose recent award-winning novel addressed the enduring traumas caused by the Yugoslav conflicts, offers an alternative perspective to the nationalist narratives that still dominate Serbian society.
Serbia Bans Sale of Shirts Celebrating Srebrenica Massacres
The Serbian authorities banned a Belgrade-based online shop from selling shirts with a slogan that celebrates the mass killings of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995.
Serbia Convicts Yugoslav Soldier of Killing Albanian Civilians
A court in Belgrade convicted former Yugoslav People’s Army military policeman Bosko Soldatovic of killing nine Albanian civilians during the war in Croatia in 1991.
Serbian Mine Gives up Dark Secret of Kosovo War
Exhumation began last month at a fifth mass grave found in Serbia and believed to contain the remains of ethnic Albanians killed in the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
Serbia Tries Female Ex-Soldier for Killing Bosniak Prisoners
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Visnja Acimovic told the court in Belgrade that she is not guilty of taking part in the shooting of 37 Bosniak men in Vlasenica during the...
War Victims Urged to Raise Voices at Kosovo Guerrillas’ Trials
In a pioneering scheme, victims of alleged wartime crimes are being offered the opportunity to play a role in the upcoming trials in The Hague of former Kosovo Liberation Army...
Serbia Pledges to Exhume Suspected Kosovar Mass Grave Soon
An expert commission formed by a court in Serbia is to determine the exact starting date for the exhumation of a suspected mass grave in southern Serbia – which is...
‘Unwell’ Bosnian Serb General’s Trial Suspended to September 2021
Novak Djukic, who has already been convicted in Bosnia of the 1995 Tuzla massacre, needs further psychiatric treatment and is not well enough to participate in his trial in Serbia...
The Vukovar Murders: Which Units Killed Civilians in Croatia in 1991?
BIRN’s analysis of Hague Tribunal evidence reveals which Yugoslav People’s Army and Serb paramilitary units were deployed in villages around Vukovar in Croatia in November 1991 when Croat civilian prisoners...