7. September 2021.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Boro Milojica’s 20-year sentence for his involvement in the murders of Bosniak civilians in the Prijedor area in July 1992 has been upheld.
War crimes
3. September 2021.
A pre-trial judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague rejected a legal challenge by Kosovo’s former President Hashim Thaci to the indictment charging him with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
2. September 2021.
Wartime Bosnian Serb Army battalion commander Srecko Acimovic was convicted of assisting the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 and sentenced to seven years in prison.
2. September 2021.
Kosovo has begun to develop a national transitional justice strategy, intended to address the unresolved legacies of the 1998-99 war - but questions remain over whether the political will exists to avoid a ‘mono-ethnic’ initiative.
30. August 2021.
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.
30. August 2021.
A new report warns that videos that praise war criminals like Ratko Mladic and deny the Srebrenica genocide and the Holocaust are being posted on the TikTok video-sharing platform.
30. August 2021.
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.
26. August 2021.
Years after the 1990s wars, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia have continued to slowly prosecute wartime crimes – but with increasing numbers of ageing suspects falling ill or dying, it’s likely that some cases will never see verdicts.
25. August 2021.
Former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Goran Viskovic went on trial for crimes against humanity, including the killing of eight Bosniak detainees from a wartime detention camp near Vlasenica.
24. August 2021.
As the former Bosnian Serb military chief, who was convicted of genocide and other wartime crimes by the UN court in June, awaits transfer to prison to serve his life sentence, he is suffering from increasingly poor health, his lawyers said.
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