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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...
Serbian State Security Officials’ Verdict Due by June 30
The verdict in the retrial of former Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague will be handed down by the end of the month, the...
TV Justice Magazine I 125: Are former Serbian officials guilty of war crimes in BiH and Croatia?
The case against Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, former heads of Serbia's State Security Service who are charged with, among other things, the murders of six Srebrenica residents in Trnovo...
Serbian Security Chiefs’ Retrial Resumes after Six-Month Halt
The UN court’s retrial of senior Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic for wartime crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina resumed after a break of almost...
Final Verdict in Ratko Mladic’s Trial Set for May 2021
The head of the UN court said the final verdict in the trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, who is appealing against his conviction for genocide and...
Serbian Security Chiefs’ Retrial Resumes after Six-Month Halt
The UN court’s retrial of senior Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic for wartime crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina resumed after a break of almost...
Ratko Mladic’s Final Verdict Postponed to 2021
Because the coronavirus pandemic caused delays to appeal hearings, the final verdict in former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s trial for genocide and other wartime crimes will not be...
Yugoslav Army ‘Supplied Weapons for Arkan’s Tigers’
A former member of Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic’s paramilitary unit told the retrial of two former Serbian State Security chiefs that weapons for the so-called ‘Tigers’ came from the Yugoslav People’s...
Serbian State Security ‘Didn’t Take Volunteer Fighters to Bosnia’
A former Yugoslav People’s Army officer told the retrial of Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Serb volunteer fighters were brought to Bosnia in 1992 by...