16. March 2016.
Next week’s verdict in the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic will be a judicial landmark but cannot heal the lasting divisions of wartime.
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
11. March 2016.
Problems with getting witnesses to court have reduced the amount of time that former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic’s defence has to prepare its closing statements at the Hague Tribunal.
1. March 2016.
Testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial, defense witness Per Oien confirmed that an investigation undertaken by UN military observers couldn’t determine who fired a grenade that killed and wounded several citizens at the Markale Market in Sarajevo during the summer of 1995.
19. February 2016.
The Hague prosecution has expressed readiness to begin the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko “Frenki” Simatovic in October 2015. The attorneys of the defendants said it wouldn’t be possible to start the retrial until February of next year.
18. February 2016.
The Hague Tribunal rejected former Bosnian Army general Naser Oric’s request to appeal a decision issued by the tribunal. His request to have the proceedings against him at the Bosnian state court discontinued were rejected.
18. February 2016.
The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague will hand down its verdict in the case against former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic in five weeks’ time.
12. February 2016.
On March 31, the Hague Tribunal will hand down a verdict against Vojislav Seselj, the president of the Serbian Radical Party. Seselj, who is currently defending himself at liberty, has been charged with war crimes committed against Bosniaks and Croats in Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
9. February 2016.
The former intelligence chief of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Main Headquarters, Zdravko Tolimir, who was convicted of the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, died in the Hague Tribunal’s detention unit.
9. February 2016.
The death in custody of Bosnian Serb war criminal Zdravko Tolimir means that 12 defendants at the UN war crimes court in The Hague have now died while on trial or waiting to serve their sentences.
3. February 2016.
Testifying in defence of Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, a former police chief said he did not know in 1992 that a special police squad under his command killed Bosniaks and Croats.
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