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A Croatian official told the trial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Zagreb is still searching for people who disappeared as a result of Serb forces’ attacks in 1991. Visnja Bilic, who deals with missing persons issues at the Croatian war veterans ministry, told the trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that most of the 929 people who are still missing from the war in Croatia disappeared in 1991.

The vice president of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, Ruzica Jukic, has been granted police protection after receiving death threats on Facebook.

Izudin Alic was eight when Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic met him and other Bosniak children in Srebrenica in 1995, gave them chocolates, and falsely promised that everyone would be safe.

Thousands of Bosniak men and boys were killed in the woods around Srebrenica in 1995 as they tried to flee Serb forces – but some survived by walking for days, dodging ambushes and minefields. Abdusamed Djozic, a former member of the Bosnian Army’s 28th Division, was one of a few thousand Bosniak civilians and soldiers […]

Croatia has filed an appeal to the Hague war crimes tribunal, asking to be allowed to participate in the trial of six former Bosnian Croat officials, but prosecutors have objected.

A former soldier with international peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina has written to the Croatian authorities, appealing to them to extradite Bosnian Croat war crimes suspects to stand trial.

In the past two years, six war crimes verdicts ordered compensation payments to victims but none of them received the money, so the state must intervene to help, legal experts said.

The Bosnian Justice Ministry is awaiting the extradition of nine people wanted for trial on war crimes charges from the United States, Russia, Switzerland, France, Serbia, Brazil and Australia.

Radovan Karadzic asked the UN court to reject a prosecution appeal to increase his sentence to life imprisonment and find him guilty of genocide in seven more Bosnian municipalities in 1992. Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic filed a motion to the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday, asking the UN war crimes court to throw out the prosecutors’ appeal.

In its 11th year, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIRN BiH) began reporting on corruption, organised crime and terrorism, while maintaining a leading role in monitoring war crimes and the judiciary.

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Croatia ‘Still Searching for War Missing from 1991’

Bosnian Judicial Official Given Police Protection

Ratko Mladic’s Gifts to Children: Chocolate and Lies

Srebrenica Survivors’ Desperate Trek to Freedom

Croatia Seeks Role in Bosnian Croats’ Hague Trial

Extradite War Suspects, Ex-UN Peacekeeper Urges Croatia

Bosnia ‘Needs State Fund’ to Compensate War Victims

Bosnia Awaits Extradition of Nine War Crimes Suspects

Karadzic Contests Prosecution Appeal for Tougher Sentence

BIRN BiH Widens Focus, Addresses New Challenges

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