Serbia commemorated its dead 14 years after the NATO air strikes that ended the Kosovo war, but the exact number of people killed has yet to be properly established.
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Ex-Yugoslav states should work together to make sure memorials and commemorations for 1990s conflict victims support reconciliation, experts told a Sarajevo conference.
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On the ninth anniversary of the riots, Serbia’s premier asked the international community to punish the instigators and help Serbs who fled Kosovo to return to their homes.
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The authorities want to establish the definitive history of the ‘salvation tunnel’ which allowed aid to be brought in and people to get out during the 1990s siege of the city.
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Thousands marched through Belgrade carrying red roses as the city marked the passing of a decade since the assassination of pro-Western Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
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More than 2,000 Bosniaks and ethnic Albanians prayed together to mark the 100th anniversary of what they allege was genocide against their ancestors.
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Pristina staged a lavish ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of the killings of Kosovo Liberation Army commander Adem Jashari and his family.
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The vandals sprayed a Serb symbol on the memorial to 24 Croatians who were killed during wartime and buried in a mass grave near the city of Vukovar.
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Kosovo police detained a man suspected of smashing religious icons at a Serbian Orthodox church amid a recent upsurge of desecrations.
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Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska marked its annual veterans’ day by paying homage to soldiers who died during the 1992-95 conflict.
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The clergy of the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Visoki Decani in Kosovo have locked their gates, after protests in the town that continued for weeks moved in front of the entrance.
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The city authorities have backed a campaign to honour a young Serb who won respect across the region when he died while saving his Bosniak friend’s life during the war.
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There were tears and laughter at the launch of a book compiling the memories of more than 1,000 young people who grew up in Sarajevo during wartime.
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Two former army headquarters hit by NATO’s air strikes on Belgrade and preserved as monuments are in danger of collapse and could be sold off to investors.
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Hundreds of Bosnians joined a memorial ceremony to more than 60 civilians killed when a mortar was fired into an open-air market in February 1994.
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