18 Jan 13
Albanian Guerrilla Monument Sparks Showdown in Serbia
Belgrade has promised to demolish the monument and ethnic Albanians have vowed to defend it - while its creator just wishes he'd never been asked to build it.
17 Jan 13
Bosnia Tries to Speed Up War Crimes Prosecutions
Four years since Bosnia adopted a war-crimes strategy, hopes are growing that perpetrators might be brought to justice more quickly.
11 Jan 13
Milorad Novkovic: Prosecuting War Crimes Costs Money
The president of Bosnia’s highest judicial authority says that failure to secure resources will hold up prosecutions of alleged war criminals.
09 Jan 13
ICTY Prosecution Blamed for Controversial Acquittals
The Hague Tribunal has taken flak for recent high-profile acquittals but prosecution errors have helped the accused go free, says Balkans expert Eric Gordy.
31 Dec 12
Serbian Media About Mladic - Turning Horror into Showbiz
The superficial treatment of Mladić’s arrest and trial is a testament to the country’s unwillingness to face up to its past.
31 Dec 12
Bosnian Media About Mladic - Laying Bare a Nation’s Unhealed Wounds
The contrasting responses of Serbs and Bosniaks to the Mladić case have again exposed Bosnia’s unbridgeable divide.
31 Dec 12
Croatian Media About Mladic - Forgotten Crimes Leave Bitter Aftertaste
In spite of the acquittal of General Gotovina, the omission of crimes committed in Croatia from the Mladić indictment is a blot on the tribunal’s record in the country.
27 Dec 12
Turbulent Year for Balkan’s Transitional Justice
With four verdicts passed this year the ICTY brought justice to some ex-Yugoslav states, while some say that already endangered regional cooperation touched new low.
07 Dec 12
Gotovina: Unlikely Hero of Croat-Serb Dialogue
The conciliatory messages by Ante Gotovina, the Croatian general recently acquitted by the Hague Tribunal, have disappointed Croatian far right.
07 Dec 12
Ilijas War Victims Lament Justice’s Snail’s Pace
About 200 people from Ilijas were killed in spring 1992 following a Bosnian Serb assault on the town and surrounding villages – and over 50 remain missing. Yet almost no one has yet been held responsible.
29 Nov 12
Hague Verdicts Don’t ‘Justify’ Croatia’s, Kosovo’s, Wars
Croatia and Kosovo should not see the rulings on Gotovina and Haradinaj as a vindication of their supposedly ‘just’ wars.
29 Nov 12
Ramush Haradinaj, Kosovo Rambo With a Taste for Politics
He had made a successful transition from guerrilla leader to politician - until The Hague threw its spanner in the works, not once but twice.
28 Nov 12
Kosovo Awaits Haradinaj Verdict in Hope and Anxiety
While family and friends prepare for a homecoming for Ramush Haradinaj, there is fear that the ICTY is under pressure to issue a verdict that will appease Serbia.
19 Nov 12
Hague Failed to Justify Gotovina Acquittal
The Hague Tribunal’s decision that two Croatian generals were innocent of war crimes leaves serious questions unanswered.
19 Nov 12
Generals’ Release Poses Dilemma for Croatian Courts
Once the euphoria surrounding the Gotovina-Markac verdicts fades, the justice system will still have to address the question of war crimes committed in 1995.