18. March 2021.
The Higher Court in Belgrade agreed to take over the case against wartime Bosnian Serb Army military police officer Dragomir Kezunovic, who was initially convicted in Bosnia of crimes against humanity.
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17. March 2021.
Pjeter Shala, a former Kosovo Liberation Army fighter, was arrested in Belgium after being indicted for war crimes by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
17. March 2021.
The Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity said it is still conducting an investigation into Zikrija Krkic for allegedly financing terrorism, after a Norwegian court jailed him for murder.
16. March 2021.
A group of activists put up temporary memorial signs to mark former detention centres at schools, industrial buildings and a nightclub where prisoners were held during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.
12. March 2021.
The Croatian Supreme Court rejected Mirko Graorac’s plea for a retrial, despite new witnesses saying they never saw him at a Bosnian detention camp where he allegedly committed war crimes in 1992.
12. March 2021.
Former brigade commander Rajko Kusic went on trial in Belgrade for ordering attacks on non-Serb civilians in the Rogatica area of Bosnia during the war, resulting in crimes including 150 killings, torture and rape.
12. March 2021.
The UN court has again rejected a plea for early release from prison for Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serbian Adolf Hitler’.
12. March 2021.
War crime cases involving a large number of defendants have been on hold for more than a year because of measures imposed to prevent large gatherings spreading the coronavirus, raising concerns that justice is suffering as a result.
11. March 2021.
Former prisoners in Bosnian Serb camps say Serbia’s media regulator should reprimand Happy TV over a show that belittled their suffering.
10. March 2021.
Mustafa Djelilovic, who was being retried for crimes against Serb and Croat civilian prisoners who were illegally held in detention camps in the Hadzici area of Bosnia during wartime, has died.
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