Sunday, 4 may 2025.
Croatia Orders Ex-Policeman to Compensate for Yugoslav Troops’ Murders
Former Croatian policeman Mihajlo Hrastov, who was convicted of killing 13 Yugoslav prisoners of war in the town of Karlovac in 1991, said he has been ordered to pay more...
Montenegro Minister Refuses to Resign for Srebrenica Genocide Comments
Montenegro’s Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights, Vladimir Leposavic, said he did not deny the suffering of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacres but only criticised the UN war...
Kosovo War Rape Survivors’ Painful Road to Recognition
Over 220 women who applied to a Kosovo government committee to verify victims of wartime sexual violence have been rejected, showing how difficult it can be to establish facts about...
Montenegrin Minister Faces Dismissal for Srebrenica ‘Genocide Denial’
Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic asked parliament to approve the dismissal of Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights Vladimir Leposavic because he expressed doubt that the 1995 massacres of...
Bosnian Serb Officer Convicted of Abusing Civilians in Besieged Sarajevo
Veljko Papic, a former officer of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Sarajevo-Romanija Corps, was jailed for two years for crimes against civilians who were forced to do hard labour on the...
Kosovo Police Detain Wartime Massacre Suspect
Police arrested an ethnic Albanian who holds Serbian citizenship on suspicion of committing war crimes during a massacre by Serbian forces in the Kosovo village of Izbica in March 1999.
Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Loses Crimes Against Humanity Appeal
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from former policeman Darko Mrdja, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his involvement in murders and other crimes against Bosniaks in...
Montenegrin Minister Criticised for Srebrenica Genocide Denial
The US and British embassies in Podgorica reacted strongly after Montenegro’s Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights, Vladimir Leposavic, said that the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica had...
Bosnia Rejects Fugitive Serb War Crimes Convict’s Appeal
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Dragan Marjanovic’s appeal against the verdict convicting him of participating in the murders of 28 Bosniaks on Mount Borje near...
Unregulated and Unlicensed, War Memorials Proliferate in Kosovo Towns
There are more than 1,600 memorials around Kosovo related to the 1998-99 war, but the authorities don’t have a proper register of what has been built, or any legal guidelines...