No final war crimes conviction has been achieved so far because international law is not properly applied at trials, claims a new report from a Montenegrin rights group.
>>>The Montenegrin government has published a draft action plan to increase judicial independence and answer EU concerns about politicisation of the country’s legal system.
>>>Work on constitutional changes intended to increase judicial independence and bring EU accession closer is being hampered by post-election disputes, a top lawmaker said.
>>>A group of academics have published a book demandingthe revision of an International Court of Justice verdict that cleared Serbia and Montenegro of genocide in Bosnia.
>>>A street in Rozaje in eastern Montenegro is likely to carry the name of Srdjan Aleksic, a young Bosnian Serb who died defending his Muslim friend in the Bosnian war, media reports say.
>>>Bosniaks condemned an attack on a memorial plaque in Podgorica that commemorates civilian victims of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.
>>>Former prisoners urged the Zagreb authorities to bring ex-soldiers accused of war crimes at the Morinj detention camp in Montenegro to Croatia and try them in domestic courts.
>>>In an attempt to resolve a territorial row over the Prevlaka peninsula, the Montenegrin government will form a new commission to help demarcate the border with Croatia.
>>>Four former Yugoslav Army reservists pleaded not guilty to abusing Croatian prisoners at the Morinj detention camp in Montenegro during wartime.
>>>More than 2,000 Bosniaks and ethnic Albanians prayed together to mark the 100th anniversary of what they allege was genocide against their ancestors.
>>>Bosniaks from Serbia and Montenegro urged the authorities to find out who seized 19 people, who have never been seen alive again, from a station in Bosnia during wartime.
>>>The Bosnian prime minister said there was only one disputed piece of territory to be demarcated before the ex-Yugoslav states sign a crucial border agreement.
>>>Montenegro’s prosecutor is appealing against the acquittal of nine former policemen for the 1992 deportation of Bosnian refugees, most of whom were then killed.
>>>Parliament must agree a proposal to give wartime refugees from Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo another year to apply for 'resident foreigner' status guaranteeing rights to work and welfare.
>>>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.
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