Saturday, 19 april 2025.
Mutiny in Serbia: How a State Security Unit’s Rebellion Went Unpunished
In November 2001, the Serbian State Security Service’s Special Operations Unit staged a mutiny and set up roadblocks. The failure to punish the instigators of the armed revolt would have...
Bosnian Serb Fighter’s Wartime Assault, Robbery Conviction Upheld
The Court of Appeals in Belgrade confirmed Zeljko Budimir’s two-year prison sentence for beating up a civilian and stealing his money during the Bosnian war in 1992.
Serbia Pays Price of Delays, Errors and Costly Cars in Rail Upgrade
Delays and design errors have cost Serbia tens of millions of dollars in the process of upgrading the rail connection between Belgrade to Budapest, BIRN can reveal.
Kosovo Veterans’ Leaders Denounce War Crimes Court as ‘Biased’
The heads of the Kosovo Liberation Army Veterans’ Association called the Hague-based war crimes court ‘biased’ and said they had done nothing wrong by revealing confidential court documents to media.
Serbian Ministry Sued over Ban on Erasing Ratko Mladic Mural
A Serbian human rights NGO filed a lawsuit against the Interior Ministry after it banned activists from holding a gathering to erase a mural of Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko...
Survivors’ Stories Describe Terror and Trauma of Wartime Rape
Psychoanalyst Wiola Rebecka says her new book about sexual assault during wartime highlights how rape survivors in Kosovo felt afraid to tell anyone about what happened to them, prolonging the...
Kosovo War Massacres Trial Stalled in Serbia for Two Years
A fresh postponement in the trial of 11 Yugoslav Army soldiers accused of committing crimes against civilians during the Kosovo war means that there has been no hearing in the...
Hague War Court Rejects Hashim Thaci’s Plea for Release
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers rejected an appeal for conditional release by former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, who is in custody in the Netherlands awaiting trial for war crimes and crimes...
Historical Revisionism is Serbian State Policy, Report Claims
Official policies on the memorialisation of the 1990s wars downplay or deny crimes committed by Serbian forces and glorify war criminals, says a new report by the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law...