15. May 2020.
The Montenegrin parliament will collate statements, indictments and trial judgments related to war crimes in which the country was involved in the 1990s for a Documentation Centre that will be set up at the legislature.
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14. May 2020.
The far-right in Europe is seizing on the scourge of COVID-19 as evidence of the folly of open borders and free movement of people.
24. April 2020.
Men who were raped or sexually assaulted during the 1992-95 Bosnian war have long been reluctant to speak out for fear of stigmatisation, but now attempts are being made to ensure they get the same welfare benefits as other war victims.
2. April 2020.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s blanket bans on certain age groups from going outdoors during the pandemic are not only harsh, arbitrary and discriminatory – but also risk worsening public health outcomes. Emina Cerimovic, Margaret Wurth and Bethany Brown In response to the spread of COVID-19, both entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federation of Bosnia and […]
25. March 2020.
The Serbian war crimes prosecution only issued three indictments in 2019, two of which were in cases transferred from Bosnia and Herzegovina, said a new report by the Humanitarian Law Centre. The Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre NGO said in a report published on Wednesday that Serbian war crimes prosecutors are continuing to issue only a […]
23. March 2020.
Many people in Bosnia and Herzegovina are self-isolating at home to protect themselves from the coronavirus, but migrants and refugees living in squatted buildings and tent camps are more vulnerable to infection because they can’t take the same precautions.
17. March 2020.
Two Kosovo Serbs were recently charged with raping women during the war in 1999 – but their indictments highlighted how Kosovo’s courts have not managed to convict anyone of wartime sexual violence in two decades. When Zoran Vukotic, a former Serbian police officer in Kosovo, was charged with earlier this month with raping a 16-year-old […]
9. March 2020.
A court in the city of Split convicted two former Bosnian Croat fighters of committing war crimes against Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war who were held in detention camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993.
Croatian media reported that Split county court found former Croatian Defence Council fighters Marinko Maric and Zeljko Rodin guilty of war crimes against Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war held at detention camps in the Western Herzegovina area from July to September 1993.
4. March 2020.
An appeals court in Belgrade upheld the verdict sentencing Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of Serbia’s Red Berets special forces unit, to eight years in prison for raping a woman in Brcko in Bosnia in 1992. Belgrade Appeals Court has confirmed a verdict sentencing Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of the Special Operations […]
19. November 2019.
An attempt to create a Serbian branch of the far-right Generation Identity failed, but the country remains central to the movement’s ‘great replacement’ narrative.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.