Following a weekend newspaper report, prosecutors said they are investigating Montenegro’s former top soldier over his role in the wartime shelling of Split in Croatia.
A year ago, Croatia finally adopted a law granting compensation to civilian victims of the 1991-95 war - but few cases have been resolved so far, and even fewer relating to injuries sustained by Serbs during Operation Storm in August 1995.
With only eight hearings held since the beginning of 2020 – and none in 2022 – the trial of seven former Bosnian Serb special policeman accused of taking part in the executions of 1,300 Bosniaks has again been delayed.
Serbia plans to prosecute four Croatian officers in their absence for air attacks on a convoy of fleeing refugees in 1995 – but experts say that because Zagreb is not cooperating with Belgrade, the case is likely to be flawed.
The trial for the killings of 20 passengers seized from a train in Bosnia in 1993 was delayed again as the court ruled that a former Bosnian Serb soldier must now be tried separately because of illness.
Personal possessions and toys owned by children who lived through the wars in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia, as well as the ongoing war in Ukraine, went on display for the first time in the Serbian capital.
Four convicted war criminals have been involved in campaigning for the upcoming elections in Serbia, all of them supporting parties in the governing coalition, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights said in a new report.
The Ukrainian Army's claim that Serbian 'militants' are being recruited to supplement Russian 'occupation' forces in Ukraine has drawn an angry riposte from the Serbian Defence Ministry.
Serbia beat off competition from around Central and Eastern Europe to host the first Chinese tyre factory in Europe, but evidence obtained by NGOs and BIRN point to ‘systematic exploitation’ – potentially human trafficking – of hundreds of Vietnamese men hired to build it. Serbian authorities say they see nothing wrong.