At the trial for the genocide in Srebrenica, a prosecution witness said the defendant did not refer to the execution of people at the Petkovci dam in July 1995, having claimed the opposite during the investigation.
>>>At the trial for crimes committed in Vogosca, a witness for the prosecution said he was held captive in Planjina Kuca in 1992, where he regularly saw Branko Vlaco.
>>>In his final statement, Medicus case EULEX prosecutor Jonathan Ratel displayed evidence of an alleged international organ trafficking network, saying illegal transplants undoubtedly took place in the clinic.
>>>At the war crimes trial of former Bosnian fighter Edin Dzeko, a witness said the defendant assaulted him and imprisoned him in an underground storage unit for ten days in 1993.
>>>The group of 12 accused of setting fire to the US embassy in Belgrade during riots in 2008 have all pleaded not guilty.
>>>Speaking in Sarajevo, prosecutor Serge Brammertz said judicial institutions must be improved to deal with war crimes cases effectively after the Hague Tribunal closes.
>>>A member of a police unit led by former Croatian interior ministry advisor Tomislav Mercep, who is accused of wartime atrocities, has evaded police efforts to bring him to court to testify.
>>>Testifying at his trial for 22 killings during a wartime attack on the village of Trusina in 1993, a Bosnian serviceman said that “unknown soldiers” were responsible for the deaths.
>>>The Hague Tribunal said six former leaders of the wartime Bosnian Croat statelet Herceg-Bosna, accused of trying to create a ‘Greater Croatia’, can expect their verdict on May 29.
>>>Two assistant anaesthetists at a Kosovo clinic accused of illegal kidney-trading said they took part in organ transplants but did not know the operations were illegal.
>>>As The Hague Tribunal moved the war crimes verdict on Serbian Radicals’ leader Vojislav Seselj back to October, his party said it proved that he is a political prisoner.
>>>Ex-prime minister of Republika Srpska Dusan Kozic told Radovan Karadzic’s Hague Tribunal trial that the Bosnian Serbs’ former political leader never ordered or supported war crimes.
>>>A witness testified at Ratko Mladic’s Hague trial that the former Bosnian Serb commander told prisoners from Srebrenica that they would be exchanged, but instead they were massacred.
>>>Ex-police chief Milorad Zivkovic was jailed for six years for detaining and expelling Bosniaks from the eastern municipality of Cajnice in 1992 in a ruling that also saw a paramilitary fighter acquitted.
>>>A new human rights report on Macedonia has brought hope for relatives of people who’ve been missing since the armed conflict between government forces and rebels in 2001.