16. August 2021.
Bosnian prosecutors charged three ex-policemen with murders, sexual abuse and rapes in the Brcko area in 1992, including Ranko Cesic, who has already been convicted of other wartime crimes by the Hague Tribunal.
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16. August 2021.
After Taliban forces swept to power in Afghanistan, governments in Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia have accepted a US request to offer temporary refuge to some political refugees who are fleeing the country in fear of retaliation.
12. August 2021.
Vinko Martinovic, who has already served prison time for wartime ethnic cleansing, was arrested in Bosnia and is wanted by Croatia to serve another sentence for the post-war murder of a Bosniak woman.
11. August 2021.
Police said they are investigating after a Facebook post by the Serb mayor of Croatia’s Borovo municipality described the Croatian Army’s 1995 Operation Storm, which defeated rebel Serb forces and sparked a refugee exodus, as a crime.
11. August 2021.
There has been a further decline in the number of war crimes cases being completed and the number of new indictments has also fallen, said the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
9. August 2021.
Former Bosnian Serb officer Milomir Savcic, who is on trial for allegedly assisting the Srebrenica genocide, was remanded in custody for breaking a court order by speaking publicly about new legislation banning genocide denial.
9. August 2021.
Croatian officials reacted indignantly after state prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina reportedly asked Zagreb if its judiciary can prosecute Croatian wartime generals for crimes allegedly committed during the Croatian Army’s Operation Flash in 1995.
9. August 2021.
A match in the ethnic Bosniak-majority city of Novi Pazar was temporarily halted because visiting fans of Belgrade club Partizan were chanting slogans celebrating the Srebrenica massacres and Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic.
6. August 2021.
Serbian activists are unsurprised by a municipality's decison to award a former general sentenced to 14 years in prison for war crimes in Kosovo, calling it part of the ruling party's strategy of wooing nationalist voters.
5. August 2021.
While top officials in Croatia celebrated the 26th anniversary of the country’s military victory over rebel Serbs in Operation Storm, their counterparts in Serbia lamented the consequences of a 'policy of extermination'.
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