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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.

The former BBC correspondent Martin Bell tells BIRN that the ‘information war’ for media coverage and international attention is as important in Ukraine now as it was when he covered the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s.

Important files, photographs and witness records that illuminate the history of the Kosovo war are being kept separately by human rights groups, amateur archivists and the State Archives, as the authorities haven’t managed to establish a proper central archive.

Women in Black’s office in Belgrade was vandalised with red paint the day after the Serbian peace group was involved in events to commemorate the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.

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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.

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An extreme nationalist organisation from Turkey set up a Bosnian branch whose leader helped President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime target opponents from the so-called Gulenist movement for extradition, BIRN has found.

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After facing uproar for rejecting a proposed parliamentary vote to condemn the Srebrenica genocide, Albania’s governing Socialist Party has put forward its own resolution for MPs to approve.

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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.

Allegations of judicial interference and political pressure convulsed the European Union’s rule-of-law mission in Kosovo as a British lawyer who became a powerful judge despite lacking the required legal credentials was fired for misconduct.

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A US lawmaker proposed a resolution to Congress calling for the rapists who sexually assaulted Kosovo Albanian war survivor Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman to face justice and for Serbia to stop protecting war criminals.

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Croatian Serb War Victims Hope Compensation Claims Finally Pay Off

As in Bosnia, ‘War of Words’ is a Vital Battleground for Ukraine

Fractured History: Why Kosovo Has No Proper Wartime Archive

Serbian Peace Activists’ HQ Vandalised After Srebrenica Anniversary

Serbia’s Only Srebrenica Massacre Trial Delayed Yet Again

How Turkey’s Extremist ‘Grey Wolves’ Built a Cell in Bosnia

Facing Uproar, Albanian Socialists Promise Srebrenica Genocide Resolution

Refugee Bombing Case Highlights Serbia and Croatia’s Enduring Antagonism

How a British Judge Caused Turmoil at the EU’s Kosovo Mission

US Lawmaker Demands Punishment for Wartime Rape in Kosovo

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