22. June 2020.
The Austrian Green Party told BIRN why MPs backed a proposed ban on an annual commemoration in Austria of Croatian Nazi-allied troops and civilians killed in World War II which has become a get-together for nationalists.
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22. June 2020.
Vojislav Seselj – convicted in 2018 of inciting war crimes in the village of Hrtkovci in 1992 – will no longer have a seat in Serbia’s parliament, after his Serbian Radical Party failed to win enough votes in elections held on Sunday.
22. June 2020.
In 2016 and 2017, US management consultancy giant McKinsey was at the heart of efforts in Europe to accelerate the processing of asylum applications on over-crowded Greek islands and salvage a controversial deal with Turkey, raising concerns over the outsourcing of public policy on refugees.
16. June 2020.
Even when perpetrators are convicted of war crimes in Kosovo, the country’s courts never award compensation to the victims, while protected witnesses who need to remain anonymous don’t launch civil suits for fear of exposure.
10. June 2020.
An improvised bomb found last week strapped to a teddy bear in the Libyan capital featured a mortar shell produced last year in Serbia. Despite an arms embargo, Serbian weapons are still finding their way to the North African country.
5. June 2020.
Every page of a wartime diary kept by former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, and used as evidence against him, was redrawn by artist Vladimir Miladinovic and is going on display in the Serbian capital.
5. June 2020.
A human rights NGO has filed a criminal complaint against unknown Croatian police officers for 'degrading treatment' of 33 migrants and refugees - including tagging migrants with paint - and their 'illegal expulsion' from the territory of Croatia.
2. June 2020.
Osman Osmanovic, who is accused of war crimes against prisoners at a detention camp in Gornji Rahic in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Brcko area in 1992, pleaded not guilty as his trial opened in Belgrade.
25. May 2020.
Families of 66 mostly Bosniak refugees handed over to Bosnian Serb troops by Montenegro in 1992 and then killed want a memorial built for their loved ones - but the authorities seem keen to avoid facing up to past crimes.
20. May 2020.
The Kosovo government is making a second attempt to set up a War Crimes Research Institute - but experts are sceptical because of the authorities’ two-decade-long failure to properly document wartime atrocities.
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