12. March 2021.
Former brigade commander Rajko Kusic went on trial in Belgrade for ordering attacks on non-Serb civilians in the Rogatica area of Bosnia during the war, resulting in crimes including 150 killings, torture and rape.
Higher Court in Belgrade
23. February 2021.
Former Bosnian Serb fighter Zeljko Budimir was jailed for two years after a retrial in Belgrade for assaulting and robbing a Bosniak civilian in Bosnia’s Kljuc municipality during wartime in November 1992.
8. February 2021.
Belgrade Higher Court agreed that a Bosnian Serb ex-policeman accused of involvement in killing 1,313 Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995 can no longer stand trial alongside his seven co-defendants because of his mental health problems.
2. February 2021.
In the last two years, 30 per cent of court hearings in war crimes trials in Serbia have been postponed, raising concerns about the country’s commitment to the rule of law - a key issue in its EU membership negotiations.
18. November 2020.
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.
12. November 2020.
The Serbian Interior Ministry again refused to provide information about an international arrest warrant for Rajko Kozlina, who was convicted of war crimes in Kosovo and remains at large, arguing there is no public interest.
10. November 2020.
The Serbian court has so far not awarded any compensation during trials to survivors of wartime sexual violence - and one rape victim has waived her right to damages because she feared losing her anonymity if she filed a civil suit.
6. November 2020.
Rajko Kusic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Rogatica Brigade, is accused of involvement in more than 150 killings as well as forced relocations and unlawful detentions.
15. October 2020.
Serb paramilitary fighter Nebojsa Stojanovic was sentenced to eight years in prison for killing a prisoner of war in the village of Kozuhe near Doboj in Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 1992.
14. July 2020.
Almost half the trial hearings have been postponed by the Belgrade court in the case against eight former Bosnian Serb special policeman accused of taking part in the executions of over 1,000 Bosniaks from Srebrenica 25 years ago.
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