The Kosovo Specialist Chambers confirmed the indictment of the leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans’ Organisation, Hysni Gucati and Nasim Haradinaj, for obstructing justice and intimidating witnesses.
The Hague war crimes court rejected a request to review the life sentence handed down to Bosnian Serb paramilitary unit leader Milan Lukic for committing crimes against humanity in the town of Visegrad.
The head of the UN court said the final verdict in the trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, who is appealing against his conviction for genocide and other crimes, will be handed down in May.
The planned White Room memorial in the Bosnian capital is to host exhibitions that highlight the suffering of children during the 1992-95 siege of the city, when hundreds of minors were killed.
A plaque naming a student dormitory after wartime Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic, which caused a political storm, was taken down after his daughter Sonja Karadzic-Jovicevic called for its removal.
Three members of the Ravna Gora Movement, a Serb nationalist Chetnik organisation, were charged with inciting ethnic and religious hatred at a uniform-clad rally in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad last year.
Emina Dizdarevic, a journalist with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has won the Srdjan Aleksic Journalist Award in the category of nominations by journalists, for her three articles on the challenges facing marginalized groups in Bosnian society.
A court in Belgrade convicted former Yugoslav People’s Army military policeman Bosko Soldatovic of killing nine Albanian civilians during the war in Croatia in 1991.
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague has repeated its demand for Serbia to arrest two Serbian Radical Party politicians and send them to stand trial for contempt of the UN court.
The State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested seven people in the Banja Luka area for the unlawful detention, torture and abuse of some 150 Bosniak and Croat civilians around Donji Vakuf in 1992.