13. July 2017.
The defence lawyer for former Serbian State Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic told the UN war crimes tribunal that rebel Serbs in Croatia mostly got weapons from the Yugoslav People’s Army, not the security service.
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
5. July 2017.
At the retrial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague, a prosecution witness said Serb police robbed and killed Croats in an attack on a Croatian village in 1991.
A written statement by a protected prosecution witness codenamed RFJ-072, accusing local Serb police of committing crimes during an attack on the Croatian village of Saborsko in the country’s Lika region in November 1991, was read in the courtroom at the retrial of Stanisic and Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Tribunals on Wednesday.
5. July 2017.
The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has turned down Croatia’s request to be allowed to participate in the trial of six former Bosnian Croat officials from the Herzeg-Bosna wartime statelet.
29. June 2017.
Former Serbian State Security official Franko Simatovic’s lawyer argued that Slobodan Milosevic could not have been the leader of a Serb criminal enterprise in Bosnia and Croatia because he accepted an international peace plan.
28. June 2017.
Former Serbian State Security chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence lawyer told the Hague war crimes court that Slobodan Milosevic had influence but not command over Serb leaders in Bosnia and Croatia.
27. June 2017.
At the retrial of former Serbian security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, a witness said Serb paramilitary groups like Arkan’s Tigers and the Red Berets carried out ethnic cleansing under Belgrade’s command.
23. June 2017.
Prosecutors from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia told a panel discussion in Sarajevo about how to begin and develop investigations into the perpetrators of war crimes and those who commanded them.
23. June 2017.
Croatia has filed an appeal to the Hague war crimes tribunal, asking to be allowed to participate in the trial of six former Bosnian Croat officials, but prosecutors have objected.
22. June 2017.
Former Serbian security chief Jovica Stanisic’s lawyer told the Hague Tribunal that the Yugoslav People’s Army was responsible for crimes in the Serb-led Republic of Serbian Krajina wartime statelet in Croatia in 1991.
The defence lawyer for former Serbian State Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic, who is being retried alongside his former deputy Franko Simatovic, sought to prove at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday that the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) was responsible for crimes committed in the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina during the conflict in 1991.
22. June 2017.
The politicisation of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina has created obstacles to securing justice for victims, chief Hague Tribunal prosecutor Serge Brammertz said in Sarajevo.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.