Although there was no actual fighting in Serbia during the mid-1990s wars, thousands of captives from the Croatian conflict were imprisoned and abused at detention centres in the country’s northern Vojvodina province.
The Hague Tribunal will complete all its trials in the next three years, after which the remaining appeals will be taken over by a UN body, it was announced in Sarajevo.
Former Serbian security official Jovica Stanisic is said to be "in shock from happiness" after the Hague Tribunal acquitted him and Franko Simatovic of controlling combat units that fought in Bosnia and Croatia.
The Hague Tribunal has acquitted former Serbian security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic of controlling the most notorious combat units that fought in the Balkan wars.
The trial is about to start in the Hague of perhaps the most infamous character from the Bosnian war Ratko Mladic, the man charged with the slaughter of thousands of people in Srebrenica.
The Hague Tribunal appoints Serbian attorney Vladimir Petrovic as duty counsel to Goran Hadzic, former President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, RSK.
At his initial appearance before The Hague Tribunal a former President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, RSK asks for additional time before he can enter a plea to the charges alleging that he committed crimes in Croatia.
Goran Hadzic, the last remaining ICTY fugitive, was extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and admitted to the Tribunals detention facility.
The Hague Prosecution charges Goran Hadzic, former President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, with crimes against humanity and violation of the laws and customs of war in Croatia in 1991 and 1992.