A witness at the trial of five Croatian Defence Forces fighters for war crimes at the Dretelj detention camp in southern Bosnia in 1992 said he was physically and sexually abused while imprisoned.
>>>Serbian police have arrested two men, including a current member of the country’s special police unit, on suspicion that they helped murder at least 65 Albanian civilians in a Kosovo village.
>>>At the trial of three Bosnian Serb fighters for war crimes in Visegrad in 1992, a witness said that one defendant played a key role in removing Bosniak villagers from their homes.
>>>At the trial of Bosnian Serb fighter Savo Babic for war crimes in Bratunac, a witness said detainees had to clean human brains from a school floor after prisoners held there were beaten.
>>>The Belgrade authorities plan to reconstruct the ‘Judenlager Semlin’ concentration camp, where more than 7,000 Jewish women and children were killed, turning it into a memorial centre.
>>>Campaigners for the RECOM reconciliation initiative said they had done all they could to promote a cross-regional truth committee and it was time for political leaders to act.
>>>Officials have launched a week-long series of events aimed at raising awareness about tolerance, reconciliation and peaceful coexistence between different religious faiths in Kosovo.
>>>Monika Karan-Ilic, one of the few women tried in Bosnia for war crimes, has been convicted of torturing and abusing detention-camp prisoners in Brcko and jailed for four years.
>>>Testifying in Radovan Karadzic’s defence at the Hague Tribunal, a ballistics expert said the Bosnian Serb Army didn’t carry out a series of mortar attacks that killed many civilians.
>>>Testifying at the Hague trial of Ratko Mladic, two women from Srebrenica testified that members of their family were killed by Bosnian Serb forces after the fall of the enclave in 1995.
>>>Police officers from Banja Luka arrested Semir Alukic and Fikret Hirkic under suspicion that they committed war crimes against Serb civilians near Prijedor in 1992.
>>>A witness in the politically-charged trial of ethnic Albanians accused of killing five ethnic Macedonians near Skopje said that one defendant was nowhere near the crime scene.
>>>The verdict in the war crimes case against two top Serbian security officials will be handed down in two weeks’ time, the Hague Tribunal has announced.
>>>Bosniaks and Bosnian Serbs held rival commemorations of the 21st anniversary of a fierce battle between local security forces and the Yugoslav Army at Brcanska Malta in Tuzla.
>>>The prosecution urged a conviction for Monika Karan-Ilic, one of the only women being tried in Bosnia for war crimes, but the defence said she wasn’t guilty of torturing detention camp inmates.
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