Almost all the Hague Tribunals prosecution evidence against Ratko Mladic has now been heard, with witnesses testifying that the former Bosnian Serb military chief must have known about war crimes.
Former Yugoslav countries have spent almost 40 million euro of public money supporting war crimes suspects on trial at the Hague Tribunal, a BIRN investigation has revealed.
With the all-important 1992-5 war glaringly absent from the textbooks in Bosnias schools, pupils and teachers have to fill in the knowledge gap on their own.
Although they were sentenced for the gravest of crimes, including war crimes, the law allows convicts to become citizens with no previous convictions after they have served their imprisonment sentences.
Defence attorneys of convicts sentenced for genocide and war crimes before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina announce that proceedings will be renewed in many more cases due to the...
The renewal of war-crimes trials due to the wrong application of laws will require huge financial resources and cause a backlog in the State Courts work on new cases.
The literal renewal of dozens of war crimes trial because of wrong application of criminal codes could block the work of the Bosnian State Court on new war crimes cases.
As more and more witnesses to the 1992-war war pass away, questions about the value of their testimony in war crimes trials are becoming more pressing.