Monday, 23 june 2025.
Kosovo Acquits Ex-PM of Falsifying List of War Veterans
Former Prime Minister Agim Ceku and 11 other defendants were acquitted of falsifying a list of Kosovo Liberation Army war veterans so non-combatants could illegally claim welfare benefits.
Taboo-Busting Literature has ‘Liberating Potential’, Says Serbian Author
Sasa Ilic, whose recent award-winning novel addressed the enduring traumas caused by the Yugoslav conflicts, offers an alternative perspective to the nationalist narratives that still dominate Serbian society.
Cover-Up Claims Shadow Unsolved Murder of Kosovo Serb Politician
Three years after the assassination of Kosovo Serb opposition party leader Oliver Ivanovic, the still-unsolved murder case is plagued by claims of political interference, obstruction of investigators, concealment of evidence...
COVID-19 Pandemic Makes LGBT Lives in Turkey More Difficult
The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt acutely by Turkey’s LGBT community, in terms of employment, income, hate speech, violence and discrimination.
Kosovo Massacre Anniversary Brings Memories of a Missing Mother
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...
Wartime Sexual Violence in Bosnia: The Human Trafficking Connection
Research into verdicts handed down by the Hague war crime tribunal and domestic courts in the former Yugoslavia shows previously unresearched links between wartime sexual violence and trafficking - as...
UN Court Archives Reveal the Political Economy of the Balkan Wars
Research in the archives of the Hague Tribunal shows how economic violence like theft and property expropriation was committed against civilians during the 1990s wars as well as other grave...
Kosovo: Top Politicians Sent to Hague to Face War Charges
Kosovo experienced a watershed moment in 2020 when four guerrilla leaders who became political heavyweights in the post-war years, including President Hashim Thaci, were sent to stand trial for wartime...
Son of Fugitive Ex-President Builds Raspberry Fortune in Serbia
Since fleeing a prison sentence in Montenegro in 2016, Milos Marovic, the son of fugitive Montenegrin former politician Svetozar Marovic, has built up agricultural land holdings in Serbia worth more...