A group of Bosnian Serbs – former wartime detainees and relatives of some of those still missing from the war – protested outside the Bosnian State Court over what they said was a lack of action concerning war crimes committed against Serbs during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
NGO TRIAL International says some war crime victims who had their cases rejected have ended up in extreme poverty because of having to pay the costs of the proceeding to the entities they sued.
A memorial was unveiled to the mostly Serb victims who were killed in 1992 and 1993 at the Kazani Pit in the hills above Sarajevo on the orders of a Bosniak commander of a Bosnian Army brigade.
The remains of four people, suspected to be a family that disappeared during the Bosnian war in 1992, were found near the village of Pribosijevici in the Rogatica municipality.
The remains of at least five war victims, believed to be Bosniak women and girls from the same family who were killed in 1992, were found in the eastern Bosnian municipality of Bratunac.
Wreaths were laid in memory 33 Bosnian Croat civilians, including a four-year-old girl, who were killed by Bosnian Army troops in the village of Grabovica in September 1993.
At a ceremony to mark the International Day of the Disappeared, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti called on Serbia to open up its state archives to reveal where the remaining wartime missing persons are buried.
White roses were thrown from the Old Bridge in the town of Mostar on the International Day of the Disappeared in tribute to around 7,600 people who went missing during the Bosnian war and have yet to be found.
Ahead of the anniversary of the 1992 killings of around 200 Bosniaks and Croats at the Koricani Cliffs on Bosnia’s Mount Vlasic, relatives said they hope the bodies of the remaining victims will eventually be found.