27. October 2021.
Sarajevo will install a memorial to the mostly Serb victims killed in 1992 and 1993 at Kazani in the hills above the city on the orders of a Bosniak commander of a Bosnian Army brigade, but without naming the perpetrators.
War crimes
27. October 2021.
Official policies on the memorialisation of the 1990s wars downplay or deny crimes committed by Serbian forces and glorify war criminals, says a new report by the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre.
27. October 2021.
Former reservist policeman Simo Stupar, who was convicted of involvement in killing, beating and illegally detaining Bosniaks in the Vlasenica area in 1992, asked the Bosnian court to overturn his conviction.
25. October 2021.
The defence lawyer for Vukasin Draskovic said he was not guilty of involvement in Bosnian Serb forces’ attack on a column of fleeing Bosniaks, which led to the killings of at least 67 civilians in July 1992.
25. October 2021.
Often criticised for its attitude to war crimes, Serbia says it wants to try more cases, protect victims and cooperate better with other ex-Yugoslav countries to deliver justice – but key problems remain unaddressed in its new five-year strategy.
22. October 2021.
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.
21. October 2021.
Kosovo’s Supreme Court upheld the verdict sentencing Nenad Arsic to six years in prison for assaulting two Kosovo Albanians and forcing one to drink alcohol and sing a Serbian song during a police operation in 1999.
21. October 2021.
Montenegro has arrested Slobodan Pekovic for the alleged killing of two Bosniaks and raping civilians in southeast Bosnia in 1992, when he was a Bosnian Serb soldier.
18. October 2021.
Belgrade Appeals Court ordered the release of Edin Vranj, a former senior Bosnian police official whose arrest in Serbia on war crimes charges sparked angry reactions from ministers in his home country.
18. October 2021.
In closing arguments at the trial of wartime police chief Dragomir Vasic, the defence argued that he did not know about a plan to forcibly relocate and kill Bosniak men from Srebrenica in 1995.
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