18. January 2021.
Sasa Ilic, whose recent award-winning novel addressed the enduring traumas caused by the Yugoslav conflicts, offers an alternative perspective to the nationalist narratives that still dominate Serbian society.
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18. January 2021.
Three years after the assassination of Kosovo Serb opposition party leader Oliver Ivanovic, the still-unsolved murder case is plagued by claims of political interference, obstruction of investigators, concealment of evidence and judicial incompetence.
18. January 2021.
The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt acutely by Turkey’s LGBT community, in terms of employment, income, hate speech, violence and discrimination.
14. January 2021.
Ahead of the anniversary of the killings of 45 Kosovo Albanians in Recak/Racak in 1999 - a massacre that helped motivate NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia - the son of a woman shot that day explains how her body was never found.
4. January 2021.
Research into verdicts handed down by the Hague war crime tribunal and domestic courts in the former Yugoslavia shows previously unresearched links between wartime sexual violence and trafficking - as well as highlighting that many perpetrators have gone unpunished.
29. December 2020.
Research in the archives of the Hague Tribunal shows how economic violence like theft and property expropriation was committed against civilians during the 1990s wars as well as other grave crimes, financing the continuation of military operations.
28. December 2020.
Kosovo experienced a watershed moment in 2020 when four guerrilla leaders who became political heavyweights in the post-war years, including President Hashim Thaci, were sent to stand trial for wartime and post-war crimes.
24. December 2020.
Since fleeing a prison sentence in Montenegro in 2016, Milos Marovic, the son of fugitive Montenegrin former politician Svetozar Marovic, has built up agricultural land holdings in Serbia worth more than a million euros, BIRN can reveal.
23. December 2020.
The head of Kosovo’s Missing Persons Commission told BIRN that 11 war victims’ remains were exhumed this year, but many more remain to be found at hidden grave sites in the country and in neighbouring Serbia.
22. December 2020.
The absence of nationalist gestures at state commemorations of war anniversaries and the reconciliatory rhetoric used by some Croatian officials offered some hope in 2020, but little progress was made in prosecuting alleged war criminals.
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