2. November 2021.
A fresh postponement in the trial of 11 Yugoslav Army soldiers accused of committing crimes against civilians during the Kosovo war means that there has been no hearing in the case since November 2019.
Milica Stojanović
27. October 2021.
Official policies on the memorialisation of the 1990s wars downplay or deny crimes committed by Serbian forces and glorify war criminals, says a new report by the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre.
25. October 2021.
Often criticised for its attitude to war crimes, Serbia says it wants to try more cases, protect victims and cooperate better with other ex-Yugoslav countries to deliver justice – but key problems remain unaddressed in its new five-year strategy.
19. October 2021.
MPs refused to debate resolutions to ban the denial of the Srebrenica genocide, to set up a commission to determine how many died during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, and to recognise Serb rebel fighters as war veterans.
18. October 2021.
Belgrade Appeals Court ordered the release of Edin Vranj, a former senior Bosnian police official whose arrest in Serbia on war crimes charges sparked angry reactions from ministers in his home country.
14. October 2021.
The Serbian war crimes prosecution said it is now ready to transfer its case against former senior Bosnian police official Edin Vranj to his home country, where his arrest has sparked anger.
4. October 2021.
A former inmate of a prison in the Brcko area of Bosnia in 1992 told the trial of an ex-soldier accusing of assaulting detainees that he did not see any of his fellow inmates being beaten or tortured.
17. September 2021.
A Belgrade court has awarded around 6,000 to 8,000 euros each in compensation to three families of people killed by Serbian forces at Ovcara Farm near Vukovar in Croatia in 1991, but rights activists say the payouts are inadequate.
17. September 2021.
The arrest of a senior Bosnian police ex-official at the Serbian border angered Bosnian officials, who claim that the country’s wartime defenders are being unfairly targeted – but are the Serbian authorities’ actions legally justified?
14. September 2021.
Rights activists urged Serbia and Kosovo to make public a reported agreement to open up or exchange material from their wartime archives, which could reveal the whereabouts of the remaining missing persons from the 1998-99 conflict.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.