Monday, 7 july 2025.
Sarajevo’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Enduring Symbols of Wartime Tragedy
Bosko Brkic, a Bosnian Serb, and his Bosniak girlfriend, Admira Ismic, became symbols of the Bosnian war when they were shot dead in Sarajevo on May 19, 1993 - and...
COVID-19 Limits Family Visits for Kosovo War Defendants
In an attempt to prevent infections within its detention facilities, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague has restricted family visits for former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders who are awaiting...
Serbia Shields Commanders from Kosovo Wartime Atrocity Cases
Twenty-one years after a massacre by Yugoslav Army soldiers in Kosovo, the trial of the alleged perpetrators is still ongoing and a Serbian court has ruled that senior commanders cannot...
Constitutional Court Rejects Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman’s Appeal
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court ruled that Mico Jurisic, who was jailed for 11 years for crimes against humanity against non-Serb civilians in the Prijedor area during the war in...
Pandemic Slows Progress of War Crime Trials in Serbia: Report
Delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic made the slow progress of war crimes trials in Serbia even slower in 2020, delaying justice even longer, says a new report by the...
UN Court Dismisses Karadzic’s Objections to UK Jailing: Lawyer
Former Bosnian Serb Radovan Karadzic’s objections to serving his sentence in a Britain prison, where he claims he could be attacked by Muslim extremists, have been rejected by the Hague...
Serbia Convicts Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier of Wartime Rape
A Belgrade court found former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Dalibor Krstovic of raping a Bosniak woman who was being held prisoner at a school in Kalinovik in south-eastern Bosnia and...
Radovan Karadzic Contests ‘Death Sentence’ Transfer to British Jail
The former Bosnian Serb political leader’s lawyers objected to the UN court’s decision to send him to Britain to serve his life sentence, claiming that he could be killed by...
Landmine Blasts on Albania-Kosovo Border Blight Survivors’ Lives
For Shaqir Koloshi, who lives in the mountain village of Beles in north-eastern Albania, near the border with Kosovo, getting around is an everyday struggle after the explosion that devastated...
Bosnia Convicts Serb Ex-Policeman of Crimes Against Humanity
Former reservist policeman Simo Stupar was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his involvement in killing, beating and illegally detaining Bosniaks in the Vlasenica area in 1992.