Following a weekend newspaper report, prosecutors said they are investigating Montenegro’s former top soldier over his role in the wartime shelling of Split in Croatia.
A year ago, Croatia finally adopted a law granting compensation to civilian victims of the 1991-95 war - but few cases have been resolved so far, and even fewer relating to injuries sustained by Serbs during Operation Storm in August 1995.
Boro Tomic is being held in temporary custody after being detained at the Bosnian-Serbian border on an arrest warrant issued by Croatia, which accuses him of committing war crimes in 1991.
Ivica Husnik, a paramilitary convicted of participating in the killings of some 200 Croatian prisoners after the town of Vukovar fell in 1991, was extradited from Serbia to Croatia to serve a prison sentence for another crime.
With only eight hearings held since the beginning of 2020 – and none in 2022 – the trial of seven former Bosnian Serb special policeman accused of taking part in the executions of 1,300 Bosniaks has again been delayed.
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.