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The authorities in the Serbian town of Negotin are supporting a promotional event for a book written by former Yugoslav People’s Army officer Veselin Sljivancanin, who served a sentence for committing war crimes during the conflict in Croatia.

The district court of Eastern Sarajevo passed down a first instance verdict, acquitting Milenko Gojgolovic of charges that he raped and treated a Susica detention camp detainee in Vlasenica in an inhumane manner in the summer of 1992, it was confirmed to the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH.

Wreaths were laid in memory 33 Bosnian Croat civilians, including a four-year-old girl, who were killed by Bosnian Army troops in the village of Grabovica in September 1993.

Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, who were convicted of aiding war crimes committed by Serbian fighters during the Bosnian conflict, claimed there was not enough evidence to declare them guilty and called for their sentences to be overturned.

Prosecutors say Sena Hamzabegovic collected cash and took it herself to Syria to Bosnians fighting for Islamic State in the Middle East.

Milivoj Petkovic, former president of the self-proclaimed Croat-led wartime statelet of Herzeg-Bosnia, wrote a letter from jail to the UN court saying he accepts the verdict sentencing him to 20 years in prison for wartime crimes against Bosniaks.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Boro Milojica’s 20-year sentence for his involvement in the murders of Bosniak civilians in the Prijedor area in July 1992 has been upheld.

A pre-trial judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague rejected a legal challenge by Kosovo’s former President Hashim Thaci to the indictment charging him with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Wartime Bosnian Serb Army battalion commander Srecko Acimovic was convicted of assisting the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 and sentenced to seven years in prison.

At a ceremony to mark the International Day of the Disappeared, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti called on Serbia to open up its state archives to reveal where the remaining wartime missing persons are buried.

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Serbian Municipality Supports War Criminal’s PR Event

Milenko Gojgolovic Acquitted of Charges for Rape in Vlasenica

Bosnian Croats Mourn Civilian Victims of Grabovica Massacre

Serbian Security Chiefs Appeal Conviction for Aiding War Crimes

Bosnian Woman Charged With Financing ISIL Terrorism

Bosnian Croat Ex-Leader’s Jail Letter Expresses Regret for Crimes

Bosnia Upholds Serb Ex-Soldier’s Sentence for Killing Civilians

Hague Court Rejects Thaci’s Challenge to Kosovo War Crime Charges

Bosnia Jails Serb Ex-Officer for Aiding Srebrenica Genocide

Kosovo PM Urges Serbia to Reveal Truth about Wartime Missing

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