Predrag Kujundzic, the wartime commander of the Predini Vukovi (Predo’s Wolves) unit, who was serving a 17-year sentence for the persecution, rape and unlawful detention of civilians, died in hospital in Doboj in Bosnia.
The dehumanizing political discourse in Bosnia increases the fear of a potential repetition of the crimes of the 1990s, the UN General Secretary’s special advisor on the prevention of genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, tells BIRN.
Accepting that genocide was committed against Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 is necessary if there is to be meaningful post-war reconciliation, the new head of the UN court in The Hague, Graciela Gatti Santana, tells BIRN.
The acquittal of ex-fighters Edhem Godinjak, Medaris Saric and Mirko Bunoza, who were cleared of the wartime killings and inhumane treatment of imprisoned Bosnian Serb civilians and soldiers in Trnovo near Sarajevo, was upheld on appeal.
Ivica Husnik, a paramilitary convicted of participating in the killings of some 200 Croatian prisoners after the town of Vukovar fell in 1991, was extradited from Serbia to Croatia to serve a prison sentence for another crime.
As the July 1995 massacre by Bosnian Serb forces was marked at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, international officials condemned continuing genocide denial and glorification of war criminals.
Thousands of Bosniak men walked 100 kilometres across harsh terrain to escape being massacred by Bosnian Serb forces after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995 - but there were also women and children fleeing with them, suffering the same terrors.
Bosnian war victims’ associations say high number of dropped investigations, almost 40 per cent of the total, is a cause for concern – and their names should be published.
Bosnia's State Court has ordered an international arrest warrant for Brane Petkovic, now in Serbia, for the killings of several Bosniak civilians in a village near Gorazde in May 1992.
The remains of 50 victims of the July 1995 massacres of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces, including three minors, will be buried at next week’s 27th anniversary commemoration of the genocide.