7. May 2021.
A public opinion survey suggested that a majority of Montenegrins believe their country is failing to properly address the crimes of the 1990s and that the judiciary is incapable of dealing with war-related cases.
Samir Kajošević
20. April 2021.
Pro-Serbian political party activists staged a protest and reportedly sang nationalistic songs in the northern town of Pljevlja after the Montenegrin government appointed a Bosniak as the local police chief.
14. April 2021.
The Movement for Changes, part of Montenegro’s ruling alliance, called for a parliamentary investigation into ex-leader Milo Djukanovic’s administration’s alleged support for Bosnian Serb forces’ deadly operations in Srebrenica in 1995.
9. April 2021.
Montenegro’s Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights, Vladimir Leposavic, said he did not deny the suffering of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacres but only criticised the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
5. April 2021.
Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic asked parliament to approve the dismissal of Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights Vladimir Leposavic because he expressed doubt that the 1995 massacres of Bosniaks from Srebrenica were genocide.
29. March 2021.
The US and British embassies in Podgorica reacted strongly after Montenegro’s Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights, Vladimir Leposavic, said that the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica had not been proven unequivocally.
15. March 2021.
Since hundreds of Balkan extremists went abroad to fight for Islamic State and other militant groups, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia have come under increased international pressure to clamp down on the financing of terrorism.
10. March 2021.
Balkans states might be prepared on paper, but in practice they are struggling to confront the growing threat from cyber-attacks. Bosnia doesn’t have a state-level strategy.
22. February 2021.
Since the fall of the Islamic State ‘caliphate’, piecemeal efforts by Balkan states to repatriate their nationals from refugee camps in Syria means more than 100 children are still living in squalid, unsafe conditions.
29. January 2021.
Laws and counter-terrorism strategies in the Balkans demonstrate a failure on the part of governments to take seriously the threat from far-right extremism, according to a BIRN analysis.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.