At the Hague war crimes trial of former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic, a witness said his troops locked up her children and caused her husband’s disappearance.
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Croat prisoners were held in a packed cell in northern Serbia, a witness told the Hague trial of wartime Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic.
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Hadzic wanted non-Serbs out of the Serb-run parts of Croatia and never stopped working with notorious paramilitary leader Arkan, his Hague Tribunal trial was told.
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The remains of 20 people missing since the war in Croatia were identified, as Zagreb and Belgrade vowed to work together in the search for more lost victims.
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The rally against the Croatian government’s decision to make Serbian an official language in the war-ravaged town was followed by an alleged assault in a nearby village.
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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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Milan Spanovic’s lawyer said the war crimes charges were false and complained that his client was being accused of petty crimes such as “lawnmower theft”.
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Former security official Franko Simatovic told the Hague Tribunal that he wasn’t responsible for atrocities committed by notorious Serbian paramilitary Arkan and his men.
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Human Rights Watch said Balkan states were still not properly addressing issues like war crimes, the abuse of ethnic minorities and refugees’ rights to return home.
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Former security boss Jovica Stanisic told the Hague Tribunal that he was only doing his job during the 1990s wars, under orders from strongman leader Slobodan Milosevic.
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Serbian security officials Franko Simatovic and Jovica Stanisic had full command over notorious paramilitary leader Arkan’s units, the Hague Tribunal’s prosecution said.
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The refugees minister from Bosnia’s Serb-run entity Republika Srpska said funds were available to help families who fled to Croatia during wartime to go home.
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Serbs who suffered in the 1990s conflicts sent a letter to the Hague Tribunal saying recent verdicts acquitting Croatian and Kosovo officials of war crimes were politically biased.
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In a landmark ruling, the court said the state was to blame for the killing of two elderly Serb civilians after the Croatian military operation ‘Storm’ in 1995.
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Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said the Croatian town of Gospic should reinstall a renovated statue of the celebrated ethnic Serb scientist that was destroyed by a blast in 1992.
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