5. November 2020.
Armed police raided former Kosovo Liberation Army spokesman and ex-parliamentary speaker Jakup Krasniqi’s houses in Kosovo and arrested him on war crimes charges.
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4. November 2020.
After the revelation that one of the Vienna terrorist attackers was a citizen of North Macedonia and that others may have been involved, authorities are waiting to hear if one of the victims also came from the Balkan country.
4. November 2020.
Former brigade commander Radomir Nedic and former battalion commander Ratko Djurkovic were charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Ugljevik municipality in 1992.
3. November 2020.
BIRN is supporting the development of educational material about war crime trials, focusing on cases from the Hague Tribunal, to help build awareness among young people and challenge the continuing political manipulation of wartime history.
30. October 2020.
Interpol has issued a ‘red notice’ asking for states worldwide to arrest wartime reservist policeman Milorad Krunic, who is accused of involvement in the killings of civilian prisoners in the Sanski Most area in 1992.
29. October 2020.
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has rendered decisions rejecting appeals filed by Ibrahim Demirovic, who was sentenced to 13 years, and Habib Copelj, who was sentenced to five years in prison for crimes against Serb civilians in the Mostar area in 1993.
28. October 2020.
Croatia’s Supreme Court increased the prison sentence handed down to Vinko Martinovic, a Bosnian Croat wartime fighter already convicted of ethnic cleansing by the Hague Tribunal, for the 1996 murder of a Bosniak woman in Mostar.
28. October 2020.
The memorial centre in Srebrenica and BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina have set out to film 100 testimonies of surviving witnesses of the 1995 genocide to create an oral history which will become part of a permanent exhibition.
27. October 2020.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said that secret negotiations have secured the return from Syria of several of the children of Islamic State fighters from Albania after years spent in refugee camps.
27. October 2020.
After Facebook banned content that denies the Holocaust, the Institute for Research of Genocide Canada has called on the social network to apply the same policy to the denial of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
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