Schoolchildren are more likely than their parents to discriminate on ethnic grounds, suggests research conducted in the Croatian city that was devastated during wartime.
>>>The constitutional court in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska ruled that Serb symbols used by the towns of Banja Luka and Nevesinje discriminated against Bosniaks and Croats.
>>>Around 100 ex-servicemen demonstrated in the Croatian city of Vukovar on Wednesday, attempting to stop the authorities putting up street signs in Cyrillic for the Serb minority.
>>>The appointment of a former ethnic Albanian fighter as Macedonia's defence chief has angered the party representing war veterans.
>>>Kosovo society is struggling to come to terms with war crimes and systematic human rights abuses because of past grievances and denial, said a new UN report.
>>>One of the Serbian Orthodox Church’s top clergymen said he was forbidden to testify in Slobodan Milosevic’s defence at the Hague Tribunal.
>>>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.
>>>The Albanian majority on Tetovo’s town council sparked controversy by declaring former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Ramush Haradinaj an honorary citizen.
>>>The lawyer for ex-fighter turned politician Fatmir Limaj mocked allegations that he illegally spent a million euro on his war crimes trial defence.
>>>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.
>>>Kosovo police detained five youths on suspicion of vandalising Serbian Orthodox graves in the town of Vitia/Vitina - four of them under the age of 18.
>>>Dealing with a backlog of hundreds of pending war crimes investigations will be a top priority, said Bosnia’s newly-appointed chief prosecutor Goran Salihovic.
>>>Politicians reacted angrily after state prosecutors stopped an investigation into hundreds of people suspected of war crimes against Bosnian Serbs in Hadzici near Sarajevo.
>>>Pristina said it would repair more than 60 Serbian memorials vandalised in apparent retaliation for Belgrade’s removal of an Albanian monument.
>>>Montenegrin reservists are seeking to prove they were mobilised during Yugoslavia's NATO conflict but hopes of getting unpaid wages from Belgrade may be misplaced.
>>>Key dates and events in transitional justice in Serbia.