6. August 2021.
In the absence of legal cooperation with Serbia, Kosovo has changed its legislation to make it easier to try suspects in their absence - but sceptics say this doesn’t necessarily mean that more war criminals will go to jail.
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6. August 2021.
Serbian activists are unsurprised by a municipality's decison to award a former general sentenced to 14 years in prison for war crimes in Kosovo, calling it part of the ruling party's strategy of wooing nationalist voters.
5. August 2021.
While top officials in Croatia celebrated the 26th anniversary of the country’s military victory over rebel Serbs in Operation Storm, their counterparts in Serbia lamented the consequences of a 'policy of extermination'.
5. August 2021.
After Croatia’s victory over rebel Serbs in Operation Storm in August 1995, President Franjo Tudjman set off on a triumphalist cross-country railway journey, staging celebratory rallies along the way - with harsh words for the refugees who fled.
4. August 2021.
Serb representatives in Croatia and NGOs from both Croatia and Serbia have started a six-day commemoration for the victims of the 1995 army operation that reunited Croatia but also cost many lives.
4. August 2021.
This week, while Croatia celebrates its victory in 1995’s Operation Storm and Serbia mourns the victims, nationalists on both sides will be seeking to profit politically from one of the war’s most traumatic events, says sociologist Marijana Stojcic.
3. August 2021.
Pero Vincetic, a former Bosnian Croat fighter charged with war crimes in the northeastern Bosnian town of Orasje in 1992, died on Sunday aged 53.
2. August 2021.
There is growing concern that escalating online hate speech in Montenegro could turn into offline violence.
29. July 2021.
The Supreme Court upheld a verdict sentencing a former Croatian soldier to ten years in prison for killing three Serb civilians, all members of the same family, after the Croatian Army's Operation Storm in 1995.
26. July 2021.
An organisation representing Croatia’s Serb minority reported that far-right activists are protesting against an event commemorating the anniversary of an anti-fascist uprising in the village of Srb in 1941.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.