4. March 2024.
The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has sent the contempt of court case against ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj and four co-accused to the Serbian judiciary for trial in Belgrade.
War crimes
29. February 2024.
Former Bosnian Serb Territorial Defence fighter Rade Grujic was convicted of committing a crime against humanity for raping a Bosniak woman who was being held captive in a house in the village of Liplje, near Zvornik, in 1992.
27. February 2024.
Modelled on a similar project in Sarajevo, the War Childhood Museum in Kyiv documents Ukrainian children’s memories of their everyday life during the ongoing invasion.
27. February 2024.
On the 31st anniversary of the abduction and execution of 20 non-Serb passengers seized from a train in Strpci in Bosnia during wartime, victims’ relatives expressed discontent about alleged perpetrators’ recent acquittals in Serbia.
21. February 2024.
In pursuing trial after trial for war crimes committed by Russian forces, Ukraine is failing to put the victims at the heart of a much-needed transitional justice strategy. To see the result of such an approach Kyiv need only look at Bosnia and Herzegovina.
20. February 2024.
The small town of Hostomel, close to Kyiv, took centre stage in early 2022 during the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Countless war crimes committed by the Russian army against the residents of Hostomel are currently under investigation and part of court proceedings. One such investigation was initiated by Lazer Taras, a local documentary filmmaker who told the Detektor team his story in the very street where Russian soldiers killed his neighbours.
16. February 2024.
Posts about the war in Gaza and images of killed civilians are being censored by platforms like Facebook and Instagram, causing journalists and human rights organisations to accuse the social media companies of suppressing news about the violence in the Middle East.
6. February 2024.
The Bosnian court rejected a challenge to the verdict acquitting Spomenko Novovic and Borislav Pjano of involvement in the illegal detention and killing of Bosniak civilians in the Foca area during the war in 1992.
5. February 2024.
Former Bosnian Serb Army officer Radislav Krstic, the first person to be convicted by the Hague Tribunal of involvement in the Srebrenica genocide, has asked again to be freed after his previous requests were denied.
1. February 2024.
Three wartime Serb fighters pleaded not guilty to committing a crime against humanity for participating in an attack that left 20 Bosniak civilians dead in the Vlasenica area in June 1992.
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