International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Archives

A Croatian official told the trial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Zagreb is still searching for people who disappeared as a result of Serb forces’ attacks in 1991. Visnja Bilic, who deals with missing persons issues at the Croatian war veterans ministry, told the trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that most of the 929 people who are still missing from the war in Croatia disappeared in 1991.

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals launched an online multimedia exhibition giving insights into the suffering of children during the former Yugoslav wars and the Rwanda genocide.

The UN war crimes court in The Hague ruled that former Serbian State Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic can remain at liberty in his home country until mid-January due to his continuing illness.

Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj dismissed the Hague Tribunal’s warning that it will assign him a defence lawyer whether he wants one or not if he fails to turn up for his appeal hearings.

Former Serbian State Security chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence told the Hague war crimes court that Serb forces in Croatia’s Baranja region in 1991 were controlled by the Yugoslav People’s Army, not the security service.

A witness told the retrial of former Serbian State Security Service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the Red Berets unit, allegedly controlled by the defendants, committed crimes against non-Serb civilians in Croatia.

After Serbian nationalist politician Vojsilav Seselj mocked the Hague Tribunal by posing as a judge on a reality TV show, the UN war crimes court issued a new warning over his upcoming appeal hearings.

The lawyer for the former head of the Serbian State Security Service, Jovica Stanisic, told the UN court that a witness’s claim that the security chief was paramilitary leader Arkan’s boss was untrue.

As the trial of the former leaders of the Serbian State Security Service, SDB, continued in The Hague, a prosecution witness said that Zeljko Raznatovic, also known as Arkan, said, in May 1991, that “Stanisic was his boss”.

A prosecution witness told the trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague that the Serbian State Security Service established, controlled and armed Serb forces that waged war in Croatia.

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

Croatia ‘Still Searching for War Missing from 1991’

Hague Court Exhibit Shows Children’s Wartime Suffering

Hague Tribunal Extends Jovica Stanisic’s Release

Vojislav Seselj Rejects Warning From Hague Tribunal

Yugoslav Army ‘Armed Serb Forces in Croatia’

Serbia’s ‘Red Berets’ Accused of Croatia Crimes

Serbia’s Seselj Mocks Hague Tribunal in Reality Show

Serbian State Security Chief Denies Controlling Arkan

Serbian Security Chief Stanisic ‘Was Arkan’s Boss’

Serbian Security ‘Controlled Serb Fighters in Croatia’

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