Wartime Sexual Violence Archives

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Two Kosovo Serbs were recently charged with raping women during the war in 1999 – but their indictments highlighted how Kosovo’s courts have not managed to convict anyone of wartime sexual violence in two decades. When Zoran Vukotic, a former Serbian police officer in Kosovo, was charged with earlier this month with raping a 16-year-old […]

An appeals court in Belgrade upheld the verdict sentencing Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of Serbia’s Red Berets special forces unit, to eight years in prison for raping a woman in Brcko in Bosnia in 1992. Belgrade Appeals Court has confirmed a verdict sentencing Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of the Special Operations […]

Former Bosnian Serb fighter Dusan Spasojevic, who is on trial for raping a Bosniak woman during the war in May 1992, did not turn up for a court hearing and told his relatives that he has absconded. A hearing in the case against wartime Territorial Defence fighter Dusan Spasojevic at the Bosnian state court in […]

Dalibor Krstovic went on trial in Belgrade accused of raping a Bosniak woman who had been captured by Bosnian Serb forces and was being held at a school in Kalinovik in 1992. The trial of Dalibor Krstovic, a Bosnian Serb fighter during the Bosnian war who is charged with raping a Bosniak woman in the […]

Former fighters Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic went on trial in Sarajevo for committing a crime against humanity by raping a woman in a village in the Foca area in 1992. Radovan Paprica, alias Papro, and Slavko Ognjenovic, alias Macak, went on trial at the Bosnian state court on Monday for raping a woman in the village of Miljevina, near Foca, on June 9, 1992.

BIRN has published an updated and improved version of its War Crimes Verdicts Map, an interactive tool that offers an overview of hundreds of court rulings on the crimes committed during the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network on Wednesday published its updated and improved War Crimes Verdicts Map, enabling […]

Authorities in the former Yugoslavia have focused on prosecuting conflict-related sexual violence while underlying issues of gender inequality have been ignored, says a new report by the Impunity Watch NGO.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity including rape and sexual abuse in the Foca area during the war in 1992. Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic pleaded not guilty at the Bosnian state court on Wednesday to crimes including rape and sexual abuse in the Foca area between early April 1992 and late March 1993.

The Bosnian court rejected wartime fighter Sasa Cvetkovic’s appeal against his conviction for the murder of two elderly Roma women and the rape of two Bosniaks in the Srebrenica and Bratunac areas in 1992. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Wednesday confirmed the verdict sentencing Sasa Cvetkovic to 12 years in prison for killing two elderly Roma women in May 1992 and raping two Bosniaks, one of them a minor, in June 1992.

US Albanians, Bosnians and Croats rallied outside the Serbian consulate in New York City to demand that perpetrators of sexual violence during the 1990s Balkan wars be brought to justice.

Wartime Sexual Violence

Kosovo War Rape Survivors Still Waiting for First Convictions

Serbia Confirms ‘Red Berets’ Fighter’s Wartime Rape Conviction

Bosnian Serb War Rape Defendant Absconds from Trial

Serbia Tries Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter for Wartime Rape

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighters Tried for Wartime Rape

BIRN Launches Updated Map of Balkan War Crime Verdicts

Ex-Yugoslav States Failing on Gender Justice, Report Says

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldiers Plead Innocent to Wartime Rape

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter’s Murder, Rape Conviction Upheld

Protesters Rally in New York for Balkan War Rape Victims

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