Three more victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide whose remains were discovered in mass graves have been officially identified, including a boy who was 16 when he was killed.
Former Bosnian Serb Radovan Karadzic’s objections to serving his sentence in a Britain prison, where he claims he could be attacked by Muslim extremists, have been rejected by the Hague war crimes court, his lawyer said.
The former Bosnian Serb political leader’s lawyers objected to the UN court’s decision to send him to Britain to serve his life sentence, claiming that he could be killed by Muslim extremists seeking revenge for his wartime crimes.
After the latest in a decade-long series of unsuccessful attempts to pass a law banning the denial of the Srebrenica genocide, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official could take action to impose legislation from above.
Montenegro’s Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights, Vladimir Leposavic, said he did not deny the suffering of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacres but only criticised the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic asked parliament to approve the dismissal of Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights Vladimir Leposavic because he expressed doubt that the 1995 massacres of Bosniaks from Srebrenica were genocide.
Zoran Malinic is accused of assisting in the commission of genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 when he was the commander of a Bosnian Serb Army military police battalion.
The government offered payments to soldiers from the Dutch UN battalion that failed to prevent the massacres of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995, in recognition of the “exceptional circumstances” in which they had to serve.
The top international authority in Bosnia and Herzegovina gave a three-month deadline for the authorities in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska to annul honours given to Radovan Karadzic and others convicted of war crimes.
The Serbian authorities banned a Belgrade-based online shop from selling shirts with a slogan that celebrates the mass killings of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995.