President Aleksandar Vucic made a speech at the launch of the collected works of Serbian historian Milorad Ekmecic, who was a close associate of Bosnian Serb wartime political leader Radovan Karadzic.
In November 2001, the Serbian State Security Service’s Special Operations Unit staged a mutiny and set up roadblocks. The failure to punish the instigators of the armed revolt would have deadly consequences for the country’s prime minister.
The recently-published verdict in the trial of wartime Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic shows how despite its denials, the Serbian state supported fighting units that committed crimes during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia.
Ahead of the anniversary of the killings of 45 Kosovo Albanians in Recak/Racak in 1999 - a massacre that helped motivate NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia - the son of a woman shot that day explains how her body was never found.
While being cross-examined at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Defence witness Milenko Todorovic sticks to his statement that the Main Headquarters of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, announced, one day after the fall of Srebrenica, that it would send captured Srebrenica Muslims to the military detention camp in Batkovic, near Bijeljina, but those captives never arrived.
The Hague Tribunal rejects a request by indictee Radovan Karadzic to open an investigation against former Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte due to contempt of court.
The Prosecutions military expert Richard Dannatt says before The Hague Tribunal that Mladic commanded the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, in the days after the occupation of Srebrenica in July 1995, although he was in Belgrade at the time.
Hague Tribunal President Theodor Meron forms a special trial chamber, which will examine whether there are grounds for initiating an investigation against former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla del Ponte for contempt of court.
Hague Tribunal President Theodor Meron forms a special trial chamber, which will examine whether there are grounds for initiating an investigation against former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla del Ponte for contempt of court.
At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, ex-Serbian Radical Party leader Seselj confirmed his wartime goal was a Greater Serbia including Serbian Bosnia, Serbian Herzegovina, Serbian Macedonia, Serbian Croatia.