26. August 2020.
Prosecutors appealed to the UN court to convict former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic of committing genocide in five Bosnian municipalities in 1995 as well as the Srebrenica genocide in 1995.
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
26. August 2020.
Bruno Stojic, former defence minister of the unrecognised Bosnian Croat wartime statelet of Herzeg-Bosna, is asking for early release because he will soon have served two-thirds of his 20-year sentence.
21. August 2020.
Hague Tribunal judgments and evidence files contain names of Bosnian Serb soldiers and policemen who have never been prosecuted for suspected involvement in killings, ethnic cleansing and detention camp abuses in Bosnia’s Prijedor area in 1992, a BIRN investigation has found.
8. August 2020.
Twenty-five years after the killing of nine elderly and disabled civilians who had taken refuge at a school in the Croatian town of Dvor, Serbian and Croatian officials continue to blame the other side’s troops, and no one has ever been charged.
24. July 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic told the UN court in The Hague that his health was “very bad and worsening” as his defence argued that his appeal against conviction should only be held after medical assessments.
20. July 2020.
Released war criminal Zdravko Mucic, the commander of a prison camp who was jailed by the Hague Tribunal over the deaths, torture and inhumane treatment of Serb inmates, drowned after having a stroke.
17. July 2020.
The UN court will hear the former Bosnian Serb military chief’s appeal next month against the verdict convicting him of genocide and other wartime crimes, after it was postponed for Mladic to have an operation and delayed again because of the pandemic.
14. July 2020.
The UN court in The Hague will not reconsider its decision to reject former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s plea for judges he claims are biased against him to be disqualified from ruling on his attempts to appeal against his sentence.
8. July 2020.
Public displays of support for war crimes defendants, nationalist political rhetoric and Bosnian Serb officials’ denials of the Srebrenica genocide are causing unease among Bosniaks who have returned to the town after fleeing during the war.
5. July 2020.
War crimes in the village of Zepa just after the Srebrenica massacres in July 1995 were initially tried as genocide, but the charge was eventually dropped, and 25 years on, most suspects have never even been indicted.
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