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For Shaqir Koloshi, who lives in the mountain village of Beles in north-eastern Albania, near the border with Kosovo, getting around is an everyday struggle after the explosion that devastated his legs.

Empty graves are waiting for three young Bosnian Army soldiers who disappeared during an attack by Bosnian Croat forces in Mostar in May 1993, but despite their families’ efforts, their bodies have not been found and their killers remain unprosecuted.

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Thirty years after a Macedonian soldier was killed during clashes at a protest against the Yugoslav military’s presence in the Croatian city of Split, the perpetrator remains unknown and arguments continue about which side shot the teenage conscript.

After the latest in a decade-long series of unsuccessful attempts to pass a law banning the denial of the Srebrenica genocide, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official could take action to impose legislation from above.

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Croatia's WWII fascist state was established 80 years ago and its legacy was revived by nationalists during the 1990s war years - and even today there are still street names that celebrate its officials and public figures who supported it.

Over 220 women who applied to a Kosovo government committee to verify victims of wartime sexual violence have been rejected, showing how difficult it can be to establish facts about assaults that happened more than 20 years ago during the war.

There are more than 1,600 memorials around Kosovo related to the 1998-99 war, but the authorities don’t have a proper register of what has been built, or any legal guidelines to regulate the chaotic construction of monuments.

Under fire from politicians in an increasing hostile atmosphere in Kosovo, the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers needs to strike deals with EU countries to relocate witnesses and their families to ensure they can testify without fear of intimidation.