Vojislav Seselj – convicted in 2018 of inciting war crimes in the village of Hrtkovci in 1992 – will no longer have a seat in Serbia’s parliament, after his Serbian Radical Party failed to win enough votes in elections held on Sunday.
The Serbian war crimes prosecutor asked for a 15-year jail sentence for Husein Mujanovic, commander of a wartime prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo, for the abuse of Bosnian Serb inmates.
Every page of a wartime diary kept by former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, and used as evidence against him, was redrawn by artist Vladimir Miladinovic and is going on display in the Serbian capital.
Osman Osmanovic, who is accused of war crimes against prisoners at a detention camp in Gornji Rahic in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Brcko area in 1992, pleaded not guilty as his trial opened in Belgrade.
Two convicted war criminals hope to be elected as MPs at next month’s polls in Serbia, while several other people who are wanted by the UN court or have been accused of wartime violations are standing for parliament.
The Serbian war crimes prosecution only issued three indictments in 2019, two of which were in cases transferred from Bosnia and Herzegovina, said a new report by the Humanitarian Law Centre. The Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre NGO said in a report published on Wednesday that Serbian war crimes prosecutors are continuing to issue only a […]
A year after Radovan Karadzic was convicted of genocide and other wartime crimes, no one who helped the former Bosnian Serb political leader to evade capture for 12 years has been convicted in Bosnia and Herzegovina or Serbia. Since the UN court in The Hague convicted former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic on March 20, […]