21. November 2017.
During a four-year trial, the Hague Tribunal has heard powerful and strongly-contested arguments about whether Ratko Mladic is guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity or whether he simply defended Bosnia’s Serbs.
Genocide in BiH
13. November 2017.
Serbia’s prosecution told BIRN that the indictment of 11 people who allegedly helped Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic hide in Belgrade while he was a fugitive has been declared a state secret.
9. November 2017.
Ratko Mladic’s defence has asked the Hague Tribunal to hold an urgent session to discuss the former Bosnian Serb military chief’s poor state of health ahead of his trial verdict on November 22.
Mladic’s defence lawyers have repeated their request for the Hague Tribunal to postpone the pronouncement of the first-instance verdict on November 22 until it has been determined whether the former Bosnian Serb military chief is mentally and physically capable of participating in his trial, and have demanded an urgent hearing.
8. November 2017.
At the trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague, prosecutors played a video of paramilitaries from the Scorpions unit murdering men from Srebrenica in July 1995.
Prosecutors played the video of the six Bosniak civilians’ murders, filmed by the Scorpions themselves, at Stanisic and Simatovic’s trial at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday.
2. November 2017.
The Hague Tribunal prosecution called on the judges to reject a request from former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic’s defence to postpone the verdict in his trial because of his poor health.
4. October 2017.
The first trial in Serbia for the mass killings of Bosniaks from Srebrenica will continue, after an appeals court overturned a previous ruling that required the prosecutor to file new charges.
4. October 2017.
The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals launched an online multimedia exhibition giving insights into the suffering of children during the former Yugoslav wars and the Rwanda genocide.
21. September 2017.
The Dutch government has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling finding it partially liable for the deaths of around 300 Bosniaks from Srebrenica killed after being expelled from a Dutch UN peacekeepers’ base.
22. August 2017.
Belgrade court found on Tuesday the retired Bosnian Serb general Marko Lugonja guilty of hiding the fugitive Ratko Mladic in his apartment in 2002.
Belgrade Appellate Court has found Marko Lugonja,a retired Bosnian Serb army general, guilty of hiding fugitive Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic.
4. August 2017.
Three years after the Islamic State mass killings of Yazidis in Iraq, survivors want to emulate the bereaved women of Srebrenica and have the massacres recognised as genocide and the killers put on trial.
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