20. April 2021.
Former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Goran Viskovic, who is already serving a prison sentence for crimes against humanity, was charged with participating in the killings of eight Bosniak civilian prisoners.
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20. April 2021.
Pro-Serbian political party activists staged a protest and reportedly sang nationalistic songs in the northern town of Pljevlja after the Montenegrin government appointed a Bosniak as the local police chief.
16. April 2021.
A judge at the UN tribunal said Serbia should be reported to the Security Council for failing to comply with requests to arrest two Serbian Radical Party politicians and send them to The Hague to stand trial for contempt of court.
15. April 2021.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has begun to create an interactive educational database of judicially established facts about the 1992-5 war with the aim of confronting revisionist narratives and war crimes denial.
15. April 2021.
Croatia made little progress in war crimes prosecutions in 2020, but commemorations of wartime anniversaries started to shift towards a more favourable environment for building trust, said a report by Human Rights House Zagreb.
15. April 2021.
The Bosnian court rejected Croatian Defence Council ex-fighter Mile Pazin’s appeal against his one-and-a-half-year prison sentence for mistreating a Bosniak civilian prisoner in the Stolac area in 1993.
14. April 2021.
The Movement for Changes, part of Montenegro’s ruling alliance, called for a parliamentary investigation into ex-leader Milo Djukanovic’s administration’s alleged support for Bosnian Serb forces’ deadly operations in Srebrenica in 1995.
14. April 2021.
The Serbian National Council, which represents the Serb minority in Croatia, warned that threats, hate speech and violence against Serbs in the country persist, despite a lower number of cases being registered in 2020.
14. April 2021.
Nermina Kuloglija, a journalist with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has been longlisted for the One World Media award in the New Voice category for young journalists who have made a substantial contribution to international journalism during the year.
13. April 2021.
A report by a commission funded by the government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity claimed that Serbs were subjected to ethnic cleansing in Sarajevo during the war and that crimes against them have been ignored.
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