29. March 2021.
European parliamentarians adopted reports calling on Serbia and Kosovo to do more to investigate suspected wartime grave sites and resolve hundreds of remaining missing persons cases from the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
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29. March 2021.
The Supreme Court overturned the acquittal of Marko Carevic, wartime commander of rebel Croatian Serb Territorial Defence forces, for ordering the killing of an 83-year-old civilian in October 1991.
26. March 2021.
Mladen Obrenovic, a journalist with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has won an award for his article on the Balkan Cossack army.
26. March 2021.
The Bosnian state court ordered an international warrant to be issued for the arrest of former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Marko Kovac, who lives in Serbia and failed to appear in court in Sarajevo to face war crimes charges.
24. March 2021.
The UN court in The Hague rejected a request for release on probation from Stanislav Galic, ex-commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Sarajevo-Romanija Corps, who was convicted of terrorising the people of Sarajevo during the wartime siege.
24. March 2021.
On a programme to mark the anniversary of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, freed Hague Tribunal convicts Nikola Sainovic and Vladimir Lazarevic told Radio-Television Serbia they were not responsible for war crimes against Kosovo Albanian civilians.
24. March 2021.
The UN court in The Hague rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Croat political leader Jadranko Prlic because he has not yet served two-thirds of his 25-year war crimes sentence.
19. March 2021.
BIRN’s unique new database includes court verdicts handed down in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia for domestic terrorism and for going abroad to fight in the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.
18. March 2021.
Ninety-one-year-old former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, who served a sentence for war crimes, was admitted to hospital in Belgrade for treatment after becoming infected with the coronavirus.
18. March 2021.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Croatia violated the rights of a Serb whose property was stolen and damaged after he fled the country because of the 1991-95 war.
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