5. November 2020.
Croatian police arrested a man suspected of committing crimes against prisoners of war at Ovcara Farm, where Croats were abused and killed after the fall of the town of Vukovar in 1991.
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5. November 2020.
Armed police raided former Kosovo Liberation Army spokesman and ex-parliamentary speaker Jakup Krasniqi’s houses in Kosovo and arrested him on war crimes charges.
4. November 2020.
After the revelation that one of the Vienna terrorist attackers was a citizen of North Macedonia and that others may have been involved, authorities are waiting to hear if one of the victims also came from the Balkan country.
4. November 2020.
Although there was no actual fighting in Serbia during the mid-1990s wars, thousands of captives from the Croatian conflict were imprisoned and abused at detention centres in the country’s northern Vojvodina province.
3. November 2020.
Twenty-five years ago, a peace deal crafted at a United States air base in Ohio ended the Bosnian war. Today, nobody likes it, but in a politically-divided country, agreement on any reform will be tough to reach.
2. November 2020.
In rescuing dogs and promoting ‘traditional’ rural life, far-right groups are seeking to encroach on the political mainstream in Europe.
28. October 2020.
Croatia’s Supreme Court increased the prison sentence handed down to Vinko Martinovic, a Bosnian Croat wartime fighter already convicted of ethnic cleansing by the Hague Tribunal, for the 1996 murder of a Bosniak woman in Mostar.
27. October 2020.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said that secret negotiations have secured the return from Syria of several of the children of Islamic State fighters from Albania after years spent in refugee camps.
26. October 2020.
As the retrial of two top wartime officials of Serbia’s State Security Service enters its final phase, the verdict could establish the facts of Belgrade’s much-denied direct involvement in the 1990s conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
26. October 2020.
Over 50 Montenegrins who disappeared in the wars in the former Yugoslavia are still listed as missing - and experts say the authorities must improve cooperation with the country’s neighbours if their graves are to be found.
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