Saturday, 5 april 2025.
Cases Closed: Deaths of Ageing Balkan War Suspects Thwart Justice
Years after the 1990s wars, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia have continued to slowly prosecute wartime crimes – but with increasing numbers of ageing suspects falling ill or dying,...
Serbian Arms Used in Africa’s Sahel Conflict: Amnesty International
Rights group Amnesty International said that its analysis of video images from the conflict in Africa’s Sahel region identified 12 cases in which fighters were carrying weapons that were recently...
Bosnian Train Massacre Defendant Dies in Serbia
One of the defendants on trial for participating in the abduction and killings of 20 non-Serb civilian passengers who were seized at Strpci station during the Bosnian war died in...
Kosovo Arrests Three Suspects for Attack on Serb
Three Kosovo Albanians, one of them who was already wanted to a prison sentence, were detained on suspicion of attacking a Serb - the latest of several recent assaults on...
‘We Know Everything’: Verdict Outlines Serbia’s Role in Croatia, Bosnia Wars
The recently-published verdict in the trial of wartime Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic shows how despite its denials, the Serbian state supported fighting units that committed crimes...
Football Fans Disrupt Match in Serbia with Srebrenica Chants
A match in the ethnic Bosniak-majority city of Novi Pazar was temporarily halted because visiting fans of Belgrade club Partizan were chanting slogans celebrating the Srebrenica massacres and Bosnian Serb...
Serbian Municipal Honour for War Criminal Dismissed as ‘Political Game’
Serbian activists are unsurprised by a municipality's decison to award a former general sentenced to 14 years in prison for war crimes in Kosovo, calling it part of the ruling...
Croatia Celebrates Anniversary of ‘Storm’ Victory; Serbia Mourns Victims
While top officials in Croatia celebrated the 26th anniversary of the country’s military victory over rebel Serbs in Operation Storm, their counterparts in Serbia lamented the consequences of a 'policy...
Croatian Serbs Commemorate Victims of 1995 Operation Storm
Serb representatives in Croatia and NGOs from both Croatia and Serbia have started a six-day commemoration for the victims of the 1995 army operation that reunited Croatia but also cost...