The Dutch government has established an expert commission to decide how much compensation to award to relatives of 350 men from Srebrenica after the supreme court ruled that the Netherlands had some responsibility for their deaths.
Planned sculpture of the Nobel prize-winner – known for his strongly pro-Serbian views and denial of the Srebrenica genocide – becomes the latest source of discord in the divided country.
The trial has opened in Sarajevo of Milomir Savcic, former commander of the 65th Protective Motorized Regiment with the Main Headquarters of the Bosnian Serb Army, VRS, charged with assisting the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica.
Prosecutors at the UN court in The Hague asked for the appeal against the verdict convicting former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic to be rescheduled quickly after it was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Bosnian Missing Persons Institute said that the incomplete remains of one Bosniak war victim have been exhumed in Pusmulici in the Srebrenica municipality.
Ratko Mladic’s defence called for the former Bosnian Serb Army commander to be transferred urgently from the United Nations Detention Unit to a hospital in The Hague because his health has continued to deteriorate.
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 delivered until next year.
Because of coronavirus travel restrictions, the UN court has again postponed former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s appeal against the verdict sentencing him to lifetime imprisonment for genocide and other wartime crimes.
More than ten streets, squares, parks and public buildings in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been dedicated to war crime convicts and defendants like Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, research by BIRN has found.
Questioning the number of victims of the 1995 massacres, complaining of an international anti-Serb conspiracy and glorifying Bosnian Serb wartime leaders are just some of the tactics used by Srebrenica genocide deniers, says a new report.