Bosnia’s state court and prosecutor’s office said that more funds are required to start processing the most sensitive and difficult cases and provide justice for wartime victims.
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Police have detained seven Croatian youths for beating up a group of Serb religious students near an Orthodox monastery in an allegedly ethnically-motivated attack.
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Former military reservist Marko Crevar has been indicted for war crimes against Croat detainees at a Serb-run prison camp in the town of Sremska Mitrovica in 1992.
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The OSCE and Bosnia’s top judicial authority have launched a joint project aimed at accelerate work on war crimes prosecutions by supporting support legal institutions.
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General Momcilo Perisic, acquitted of war crimes by the Hague Tribunal last week, could now be prosecuted for spying for the United States after he returned to Serbia.
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Kosovo police detained the remaining two ethnic Albanian suspects wanted for killing five Macedonians in a politically-charged case that raised ethnic tensions.
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Four former Bosnian Army servicemen were detained for allegedly abusing Serb prisoners being transported from the northern towns of Bihac and Cazin in 1995.
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The prosecution in the politically-charged case known as ‘Monster’ presented DNA analysis that allegedly links one of the ethnic Albanian defendants with the killings.
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The Appeals Chamber of the Bosnian State Court has rendered its first verdict for false testimony, jailing Bosko Lazic for falsely accusing a Bosnian Serb of war crimes in Srebrenica.
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The OSCE urged Balkan states to collaborate to ensure that wartime offenders do not evade justice by hiding in other countries.
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Belgrade’s war crimes prosecutor is investigating two ex-fighters for murdering detainees after the fall of the besieged Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991.
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Wednesday’s meeting between the Croatian and Serbian prime ministers raised hopes that counter-claims of genocide will be abandoned, a European Parliament rapporteur said.
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Kosovo has agreed to do more to ensure witnesses’ safety after repeated international calls for better protection.
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Bosnia’s regional prosecutors have made a prompt start to the year by pressing ahead with three new war crimes cases.
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Radovan Stankovic was sentenced to two years jail term for using force while escaping from the Foca prison where he was serving the 20-year sentence for war crimes.
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