The UN secretary-general has asked the Hague Tribunal to examine the possibility of Serbian war crimes convicts serving their sentences in their home country.
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A witness at the trial of ex-Kosovo Liberation Army fighters accused of abusing prisoners at the Klecka wartime jail retracted his previous statement identifying one of the suspects.
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At the trial of three Bosnian Serb fighters for war crimes in Visegrad in 1992, a criminologist described what he saw when the remains of dozens of murdered Bosniaks were exhumed.
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A project documenting the testimonies of Srebrenica survivors has handed over 500 video interviews for a multimedia room at the massacre memorial centre in eastern Bosnia.
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A soldier who gave an interview confessing that former Croatian interior ministry advisor Tomislav Mercep’s unit killed 280 people authorised the text in writing, his interviewer said.
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On the 21st anniversary of the wartime deportation of Bosniak refugees from Montenegro, activists urged the authorities to punish the perpatrators and build a memorial to the victims.
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Details of the alleged violent abuse of prisoners by seven ex-Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas under investigation for war crimes have emerged in a document received by BIRN.
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Milinko Konjevic, a former Bosnian Serb serviceman, was sentenced to six years in prison for killing a Bosniak civilian in Kozarska Dubica in the north of the country in 1992.
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Macedonia’s Lustration Commission has targeted the former police minister Ljubmir Frckoski for allegedly ordering surveillance for ideological and political reasons.
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A witness at the war crimes trial of ex-Bosnian Serb military policeman Savo Babic said he was beaten by guards while imprisoned at a school in Bratunac, but never by the defendant.
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Thousands joined a mass protest in Pristina urging the release of Kosovo’s former security forces commander and six other ex-guerrillas who are being held on suspicion of war crimes.
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A court has acquitted former serviceman Mladen Markovic of war crimes charges over the alleged rape of two Bosniak women near the town of Visegrad in 1992.
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Serbian lustration legislation aimed at exposing past human rights violations has never been implemented and is due to expire soon, despite efforts by some lawmakers to extend it.
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A former Bosnian Serb lieutenant colonel testified at Ratko Mladic’s Hague trial that the ex-commander was directly involved in the Srebrenica offensive in July 1995.
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The defence at the trial of ex-serviceman Predrag Prosic for killing and expelling Bosniaks from Sanski Most in 1992 requested an acquittal, while the verdict was scheduled for June 12.
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