Monday, 5 may 2025.
Bosnia: Peace Anniversary Year Sees War Crimes Trial Slowdown
Bosnia and Herzegovina marked the 25th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the 1990s war - but amid the pandemic, the slow process of prosecuting the crimes committed...
Srebrenica Victims’ Families Told to Seek Damages from Netherlands
Relatives of a group of victims of the Srebrenica genocide whose lives were not saved by Dutch peacekeeping troops in 1995 can file claims for compensation from the Netherlands starting...
Croatia: Post-War Reconciliation Rhetoric Sparks Cautious Optimism
The absence of nationalist gestures at state commemorations of war anniversaries and the reconciliatory rhetoric used by some Croatian officials offered some hope in 2020, but little progress was made...
Harsher Sentence Urged for Bosnian Serb Soldier Convicted of Rape
The prosecution called on the Bosnian court to increase former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Sasa Curcic’s five-year sentence for raping a Bosniak woman during the war in 1992 in the...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Servicemen Charged over Murders of 45 Civilians
Nine former Bosnian Serb Army personnel were charged with committing a crime against humanity during an attack on the village of Novoseoci in September 1992, when 45 Bosniak civilians were...
Bosnian Army Ex-Officer Faces Retrial for Croats’ Killings
The verdict convicting Enver Buza, the wartime commander of a Bosnian Army battalion, of failing to discipline his troops for the 1993 killing of 27 Croat civilians in the village...
Seven Bosniak Ex-Fighters Arrested for War Crimes Against Serbs
Seven former Bosnian Army soldiers and Territorial Defence force fighters were arrested for alleged wartime crimes in the Zvornik area from 1992 to 1994, including the killing of around 20...
Bosnia Arrests Two for Crimes Against Humanity in Foca
Spomenko Novovic and Borislav Pjano were arrested on suspicion that they committed crimes against humanity, including the murders of Bosniak civilians, in the Foca area during the war in 1992.
Kosovo War Veterans’ Leaders Indicted for Obstructing Justice
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers confirmed the indictment of the leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans’ Organisation, Hysni Gucati and Nasim Haradinaj, for obstructing justice and intimidating witnesses.
UN Court Refuses to Review Paramilitary Leader’s Life Sentence
The Hague war crimes court rejected a request to review the life sentence handed down to Bosnian Serb paramilitary unit leader Milan Lukic for committing crimes against humanity in the...