Special State Prosecutor Milivoje Katnic promised to take action against Montenegrin citizens who were involved in war crimes after repeated criticism that the country is failing to bring perpetrators to justice.
On the anniversary of the Bosnian Serb Army’s shelling of the city of Tuzla, which left 71 dead in May 1995, parents of children who were killed praised the Kapija Memorial Centre for safeguarding the truth about the attack.
Three more victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide whose remains were discovered in mass graves have been officially identified, including a boy who was 16 when he was killed.
In an attempt to prevent infections within its detention facilities, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague has restricted family visits for former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders who are awaiting trial.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court ruled that Mico Jurisic, who was jailed for 11 years for crimes against humanity against non-Serb civilians in the Prijedor area during the war in 1992, did get a fair trial.
Delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic made the slow progress of war crimes trials in Serbia even slower in 2020, delaying justice even longer, says a new report by the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre.
Former Bosnian Serb Radovan Karadzic’s objections to serving his sentence in a Britain prison, where he claims he could be attacked by Muslim extremists, have been rejected by the Hague war crimes court, his lawyer said.
A Belgrade court found former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Dalibor Krstovic of raping a Bosniak woman who was being held prisoner at a school in Kalinovik in south-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.
The former Bosnian Serb political leader’s lawyers objected to the UN court’s decision to send him to Britain to serve his life sentence, claiming that he could be killed by Muslim extremists seeking revenge for his wartime crimes.
Peace activists from the Centre for Nonviolent Action put up temporary signs at eight unmarked locations in Bosnia and Herzegovina where people were detained, abused and killed during the 1992-95 war.