15. April 2021.
Croatia made little progress in war crimes prosecutions in 2020, but commemorations of wartime anniversaries started to shift towards a more favourable environment for building trust, said a report by Human Rights House Zagreb.
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14. April 2021.
The Movement for Changes, part of Montenegro’s ruling alliance, called for a parliamentary investigation into ex-leader Milo Djukanovic’s administration’s alleged support for Bosnian Serb forces’ deadly operations in Srebrenica in 1995.
14. April 2021.
The Serbian National Council, which represents the Serb minority in Croatia, warned that threats, hate speech and violence against Serbs in the country persist, despite a lower number of cases being registered in 2020.
10. April 2021.
Croatia's WWII fascist state was established 80 years ago and its legacy was revived by nationalists during the 1990s war years - and even today there are still street names that celebrate its officials and public figures who supported it.
9. April 2021.
Former Croatian policeman Mihajlo Hrastov, who was convicted of killing 13 Yugoslav prisoners of war in the town of Karlovac in 1991, said he has been ordered to pay more than 350,000 euros to fund compensation.
9. April 2021.
Montenegro’s Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights, Vladimir Leposavic, said he did not deny the suffering of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacres but only criticised the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
8. April 2021.
Over 220 women who applied to a Kosovo government committee to verify victims of wartime sexual violence have been rejected, showing how difficult it can be to establish facts about assaults that happened more than 20 years ago during the war.
5. April 2021.
Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic asked parliament to approve the dismissal of Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights Vladimir Leposavic because he expressed doubt that the 1995 massacres of Bosniaks from Srebrenica were genocide.
1. April 2021.
Police arrested an ethnic Albanian who holds Serbian citizenship on suspicion of committing war crimes during a massacre by Serbian forces in the Kosovo village of Izbica in March 1999.
29. March 2021.
The US and British embassies in Podgorica reacted strongly after Montenegro’s Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights, Vladimir Leposavic, said that the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica had not been proven unequivocally.
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