The Kosovo Specialist Chambers confirmed the indictment of the leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans’ Organisation, Hysni Gucati and Nasim Haradinaj, for obstructing justice and intimidating witnesses.
A court in Belgrade convicted former Yugoslav People’s Army military policeman Bosko Soldatovic of killing nine Albanian civilians during the war in Croatia in 1991.
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague has repeated its demand for Serbia to arrest two Serbian Radical Party politicians and send them to stand trial for contempt of the UN court.
Exhumation began last month at a fifth mass grave found in Serbia and believed to contain the remains of ethnic Albanians killed in the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Visnja Acimovic told the court in Belgrade that she is not guilty of taking part in the shooting of 37 Bosniak men in Vlasenica during the war in June 1992.
In a pioneering scheme, victims of alleged wartime crimes are being offered the opportunity to play a role in the upcoming trials in The Hague of former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas including ex-President Hashim Thaci.
An expert commission formed by a court in Serbia is to determine the exact starting date for the exhumation of a suspected mass grave in southern Serbia – which is likely to begin work shortly.
Croatia aims to pass legislation that will grant benefits to civilian victims of the 1991-95 war - but experts warn that the draft law in its current form could omit some people who suffered, including some Croatian Serbs.
The Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague claims that Kosovo’s ex-president Hashim Thaci and his fellow war crimes indictees have been involved in interfering with potential prosecution witnesses before their trial.
Novak Djukic, who has already been convicted in Bosnia of the 1995 Tuzla massacre, needs further psychiatric treatment and is not well enough to participate in his trial in Serbia until September next year, medical experts said.