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26 Apr 13 Bosnian Fighters ‘Abused Croats in Museum Basement’

Testifying at the trial of former Bosnian Army deputy commander Nihad Bojadzic, witnesses recalled Croat prisoners being abused at a museum in the southern town of Jablanica.

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witness-testifies-about-bad-conditions-in-silos
26 Apr 13 Prisoners ‘Forced Into Hard Labour’ by Bosnian Guards

A former prisoner told the trial for war crimes committed in Hadzici near Sarajevo that defendant Becir Hujic ordered detainees at the Silos camp to do hard labour.

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25 Apr 13 Serbian President Apologises for War Crimes

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said he was “begging” on his knees for forgiveness for crimes committed by Serb forces in Bosnia during the 1990s conflict.  

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25 Apr 13 Croatia Finds More Bodies in Mass Grave

Ten more bodies of people killed during wartime have been exhumed in the Croatian village of Sotin near Vukovar after a collaborative investigation by the Zagreb and Belgrade authorities.

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25 Apr 13 KLA Commander Limaj ‘Didn’t Order Torture or Murders’

A former legal adviser to the Kosovo Liberation Army told the war crimes trial of Fatmir Limaj that the ex-commander didn’t order the abuse of prisoners at the Klecka jail.

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25 Apr 13 EU Prosecutors Probe ‘Worst Kosovo War Massacre’

The EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo has formally launched an investigation into what is alleged to be the largest mass killing by Serbian forces during the late 1990s conflict.

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25 Apr 13 UN Peace Envoy Testifies for Karadzic Defence

Former UN peace envoy Jasushi Akashi testified at Radovan Karadzic’s Hague trial that it was impossible to prove that Bosnian Serb forces were responsible for a market massacre in Sarajevo.

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25 Apr 13 Bosnian Serb ‘Used Prisoners as Human Shields’

At the trial for wartime crimes at detention camps in Vogosca near Sarajevo, a witness said defendant Branko Vlaco decided which prisoners did hard labour or served as human shields.

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24 Apr 13 Bosnian Serbs Promise Hague Defendants Financial Aid

The government of Bosnia’s Serb-led entity Republika Srpska has decided to grant 50,000 euro from this year’s budget to help people indicted by the Hague Tribunal for war crimes.

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24 Apr 13 Bosnian Torture Victims Stage Parliament Protest

Victims’ groups protested at the state parliament in Sarajevo about delays in adopting an umbrella law to provide basic rights for some 200,000 people who were tortured in wartime.

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24 Apr 13 Serb Authorities ‘Ordered Kosovo Corpse Clean-Up’

The authorities used a municipal waste-disposal service to remove the bodies of Albanians massacred in Kosovo in 1999, a witness told the war crimes trial of 13 Serbian paramilitaries.

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witness-denies-limaj-had-powers-over-klecka-prison
24 Apr 13 KLA Commander Limaj ‘Never Ran Kosovo War Jail’

At the trial of former KLA commander Fatmir Limaj for war crimes against prisoners at the Klecka detention centre, the guerrillas’ ex-legal adviser said the defendant didn’t control the jail.

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clinic-in-kosovo-organ-trafficking-case-sold
24 Apr 13 Clinic in Kosovo Organ Trafficking Case Sold

As the trial of alleged members of an illegal kidney-trading ring in Kosovo nears its end, it emerged that the Medicus clinic at the centre of the charges has been sold.

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fear-felt-in-the-air-in-dretelj-camp
23 Apr 13 Bosnian Serb Prisoners ‘Regularly Abused’ at Dretelj Camp

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 prisoners were physically and mentally abused.

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witness-testifies-about-execution-of-men-from-visegrad-convoy
23 Apr 13 Bosnian Serb Fighter ‘Organised Deadly Prisoner Convoys’

At the trial of three Bosnian Serb fighters for war crimes in Visegrad, a witness alleged that one defendant organised convoys from which civilians were taken and executed, including her husband.

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