Covert Operations: Unravelling Serbian Officials’ Links to Paramilitaries
As the UN court prepares to rule on whether the Serbian State Security Service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic illegally controlled wartime paramilitary units, BIRN looks at how they...
Stanisic and Simatovic, Belgrade’s Security Strongmen
Former Serbian state security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic will hear the judgment in The Hague this week in their retrial for masterminding the most notorious Serb combat units...
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court Rejects Babic Appeal Over Prijedor Verdict
The Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal filed by Zoran Babic against his cumulative 35-year sentence for crimes committed in Prijedor, concluding that his right to a fair defence had...
Hague Tribunal Archive Reveals Paramilitaries’ Violent Strategies
Records held by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia show how paramilitary units were set up and deployed to use violence to achieve political aims in the 1990s...
Hague Tribunal Leaves Uncertain Legacy as Last Trial Nears End
Ahead of the initial verdict in the last trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, BIRN looks back on the landmark judgments, controversies, successes and failures in the UN court’s...
War Victims Hope for Double Genocide Conviction for Ratko Mladic
Bosnian war survivors want former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic to be found guilty this week of genocide in five Bosnian municipalities in 1992 as well as genocide in...
BIRN Photo Essay Shows Ratko Mladic Case Crime Scenes
Before this week’s final verdict in Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic’s trial, BIRN a presents a photographic essay showing the places where the crimes in his indictment were committed,...
Dodging Prosecution, Ratko Mladic’s Wartime Associates Live Freely in Serbia
The UN court will deliver Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic’s final verdict next week, but dozens of his associates who have been accused or convicted of Bosnian war crimes...
Srebrenica Mothers’ Last Wish: To See Ratko Mladic Convicted
Mothers of Srebrenica genocide victims are awaiting the final verdict in Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s trial next week - but as the years have passed, some mothers who...
Ratko Mladic: Europe’s Most Wanted Faces Final Judgment
He was a devoted Yugoslav soldier, then a war crimes suspect on the run - now former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic awaits his final court verdict for the...