Saturday, 10 october 2026.
Dodging Prosecution, Ratko Mladic’s Wartime Associates Live Freely in Serbia
The UN court will deliver Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic’s final verdict next week, but dozens of his associates who have been accused or convicted of Bosnian war crimes...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Police Testify About Prisoner Disappearances
At the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb Army soldier Dragan Dopudja, former police employees said that Bosniak prisoners were taken away from a detention facility in Ripac near Bihac in...
Crossing Borders: In a Belgrade Café, Codes, Cash and a Cut for the State
From the ‘Mesopotamia’ in Belgrade to a damp hotel near the Hungarian border, BIRN lifts the lid on a lucrative smuggling operation that keeps migrants and refugees moving across the...
Croatian President Returns Honours to War Crime Defendant
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic defended his decision to return war honours to former general Branimir Glavas, who is being retried for alleged crimes against Serb civilians in the city of...
Serbia Mass Grave Exhumation Yields ‘At Least Nine’ Bodies
The remains of at least nine suspected Kosovo war victims have been found in a mass grave in an old open-cast mine in Kizevak in south-western Serbia, officials said as...
Montenegro Activists Commemorate Wartime Deportations
Montenegrin human rights activists laid wreaths in front of the police headquarters in the coastal town of Herceg Novi to commemorate the wartime deportation of Bosniak refugees to a Serb-run...
Montenegrin Prosecutor Promises to Identify War Criminals
Special State Prosecutor Milivoje Katnic promised to take action against Montenegrin citizens who were involved in war crimes after repeated criticism that the country is failing to bring perpetrators to...
Kosovo PM Revives Plan to Sue Serbia for Genocide
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti has vowed to revive the controversial idea of launching an international court case against Serbia for alleged genocide during the 1998-99 war, despite experts’ warnings...
Serviced in Serbia: The Lethal Crop Duster Destined for War in Libya
A UN probe into the conflict in Libya led investigators to a small airstrip south of Belgrade, where an ‘agricultural’ plane – modified to carry rockets and traced to US...
Kosovo Museum to Preserve Childhood Memories of Wartime
Human rights activists in Kosovo are preparing to open a museum focusing on children’s experiences of the 1998-99 war and are asking people to give them personal items and testimonies...
COVID-19 Limits Family Visits for Kosovo War Defendants
In an attempt to prevent infections within its detention facilities, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague has restricted family visits for former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders who are awaiting...
Serbia Shields Commanders from Kosovo Wartime Atrocity Cases
Twenty-one years after a massacre by Yugoslav Army soldiers in Kosovo, the trial of the alleged perpetrators is still ongoing and a Serbian court has ruled that senior commanders cannot...