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Bosnian Politics ‘Impedes Justice’, Says Hague Prosecutor
The political climate in Bosnia and Herzegovina is impeding the process of achieving justice, chief Hague Tribunal prosecutor Serge Brammertz told a conference on the legacy of the International Criminal...
Wartime Sexual Crimes: A Challenge for Balkan Prosecutors
Michelle Jarvis, who co-edited a book entitled ‘Prosecuting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence at the ICTY’ with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia’s chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz, told BIRN in...
Serbian Security Chiefs ‘Seen in Croatia Conflict Zone’
Former Yugoslav People’s Army colonel Radoslav Maksic told the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that he saw defendants Stanisic and Simatovic twice in the self-proclaimed, Serb-led...
OSCE: Bosnia Boosts Wartime Sexual Violence Prosecutions
A new OSCE report, ‘Achieving justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina’, launched on Wednesday in Sarajevo, says that the country’s judiciary has made...
Bosnian MP Pushes Genocide Denial Legislation
Social Democratic Party MP Becirevic said on Friday that he has filed a motion to the state parliament urging the legislature to consider revisions to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s criminal code...
War Crimes Defendants Unharmed by Hague Jail Fire
The Dutch justice ministry told BIRN on Thursday that no defendants at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia who are being held at the UN detention unit at...
Stanisic and Simatovic ‘Controlled Ethnic Cleansing Units’
Prosecutor Adam Weber told the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, alias Frenki, at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday, that the defendants controlled...
Serbian Security Chiefs ‘Implemented Milosevic’s Criminal Plan’
The retrial of the former head of the Serbian State Security Service, Jovica Stanisic, and his assistant Franko Simatovic, alias Frenki, both of whom are accused of wartime crimes in...
Bosnia’s Segregated Schooling Entrenches Wartime Divisions
In the second of two reports on the education system in Bosnia, where children are taught differently according to ethnicity, experts argue that segregated schooling is a way of keeping...
Karadzic Wants Skype Installed in Hague Detention
Theodor Meron, the president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, said on Tuesday that he has asked the UN court’s registrar to give him information about the establishment of...
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