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Italian TV personnel Marco Luchetta, Alessandro Sasa Ota and Dario D’Angelo were killed by artillery fire in 1994 while reporting on the plight of children in the war-ravaged, ethnically-divided town of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The seven-month armed conflict that erupted between rebels and security forces in North Macedonia in January 2001 is now seen as a turning point for ethnic relations between the country’s Macedonian majority and Albanian minority.

Far-right extremism in Slovakia is not limited to Marian Kotleba, though the neofascist leader has, more than anyone else, helped radicalisation go mainstream.

Ahead of the anniversary of the killings of 45 Kosovo Albanians in Recak/Racak in 1999 - a massacre that helped motivate NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia - the son of a woman shot that day explains how her body was never found.

Exhumation began last month at a fifth mass grave found in Serbia and believed to contain the remains of ethnic Albanians killed in the 1998-99 Kosovo war.

In a pioneering scheme, victims of alleged wartime crimes are being offered the opportunity to play a role in the upcoming trials in The Hague of former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas including ex-President Hashim Thaci.

In rescuing dogs and promoting ‘traditional’ rural life, far-right groups are seeking to encroach on the political mainstream in Europe.

The latest in BIRN’s Forgotten Victims series examines how Croat troops attacked a convoy of Serbs trying to escape to safety in September 1995, killing 81 civilians, but no one has ever been charged with their murders.

Over 50 Montenegrins who disappeared in the wars in the former Yugoslavia are still listed as missing - and experts say the authorities must improve cooperation with the country’s neighbours if their graves are to be found.

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Sixteen Bosniak men and one woman were seized by paramilitaries from the Bosnian Serb ‘Avengers’ unit and then abused and killed at a notorious hotel in Visegrad during the war in 1992.

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Italian Reporters Died Shielding Bosnian Child from Blast

20 Years On, Armed Conflict’s Legacy Endures in North Macedonia

Far-right extremism in Slovakia: Hate, guns and friends from Russia

Kosovo Massacre Anniversary Brings Memories of a Missing Mother

Serbian Mine Gives up Dark Secret of Kosovo War

War Victims Urged to Raise Voices at Kosovo Guerrillas’ Trials

In ‘Far-Right Ecologism’, European Extremists Pursue Broader Appeal

Forgotten Victims: Bosnian Serb Refugee Convoy Ambushed While Fleeing

In Montenegro, Hopes Fade for News of the Wartime Missing

Bosnian Bus Kidnapping Anniversary Commemorated by Victims’ Families

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