Monday, 21 april 2025.
Kosovo Finds 11 War Victims in Hidden Graves in 2020
The head of Kosovo’s Missing Persons Commission told BIRN that 11 war victims’ remains were exhumed this year, but many more remain to be found at hidden grave sites in...
Croatia: Post-War Reconciliation Rhetoric Sparks Cautious Optimism
The absence of nationalist gestures at state commemorations of war anniversaries and the reconciliatory rhetoric used by some Croatian officials offered some hope in 2020, but little progress was made...
Kosovo War Veterans’ Leaders Indicted for Obstructing Justice
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers confirmed the indictment of the leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans’ Organisation, Hysni Gucati and Nasim Haradinaj, for obstructing justice and intimidating witnesses.
Serbia Convicts Yugoslav Soldier of Killing Albanian Civilians
A court in Belgrade convicted former Yugoslav People’s Army military policeman Bosko Soldatovic of killing nine Albanian civilians during the war in Croatia in 1991.
UN Court Urges Serbia to Send Wanted Nationalists to Hague
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague has repeated its demand for Serbia to arrest two Serbian Radical Party politicians and send them to stand trial for...
Serbian Mine Gives up Dark Secret of Kosovo War
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.
Serbia Tries Female Ex-Soldier for Killing Bosniak Prisoners
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Visnja Acimovic told the court in Belgrade that she is not guilty of taking part in the shooting of 37 Bosniak men in Vlasenica during the...
War Victims Urged to Raise Voices at Kosovo Guerrillas’ Trials
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...
Serbia Pledges to Exhume Suspected Kosovar Mass Grave Soon
An expert commission formed by a court in Serbia is to determine the exact starting date for the exhumation of a suspected mass grave in southern Serbia – which is...