Serbia’s appeals court upheld a verdict finding two policemen not guilty of war crimes against the Bitici brothers, three Kosovo Liberation Army volunteers from the US who were killed in 1999.
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Bosniaks wanted harsher sentences for Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, who were jailed for war crimes by the Hague Tribunal, but Serbs said the verdict was unfair.
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A former Kosovo Liberation Army commander on trial for allegedly torturing Albanian civilians at a wartime detention centre denied detainees were ill-treated during their arrest.
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Vuk Jeremic, Serbian president of the UN General Assembly, says he will keep pressing for a UN debate about the Hague Tribunal which he says could be a forum for “tough criticism”.
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A former Kosovo Liberation Army commander on trial for allegedly torturing Albanian civilians at a wartime detention centre accused UN investigators of falsifying the charges.
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A witness who was ten years old when the Serbian ‘Jackals’ paramilitary unit attacked his village in Kosovo testified at the fighters’ trial how they killed his neighbours.
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The retrial of three ex-Kosovo Liberation Army commanders for jailing and torturing Albanian civilians began with the defendants arguing wartime detention centres were legal.
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Pristina’s leaders thanked NATO for launching its bombing campaign 14 years ago to end the Kosovo war, and stressed their hope of gaining membership of the military alliance.
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Serbia commemorated its dead 14 years after the NATO air strikes that ended the Kosovo war, but the exact number of people killed has yet to be properly established.
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The prosecution at the trial for alleged illicit kidney-trading at Kosovo’s Medicus clinic has made new allegations of grievous bodily harm and fraud against the defendants.
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The European Parliament said Balkan states should support a campaign to set up a regional truth commission to establish the facts about the war years.
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Establishing what happened to people who disappeared during the 1990s wars is necessary to create lasting peace in the Balkans, said Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic.
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MPs decided not to investigate alleged rights abuses during the prosecution of former Kosovo guerrillas accused of killing a family for revenge in the high-profile ‘Kiqina’ case.
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European Union officials told the Serbian government that reform of the justice system was crucial if Belgrade is to reach the rule-of-law standards required for membership.
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On the ninth anniversary of the riots, Serbia’s premier asked the international community to punish the instigators and help Serbs who fled Kosovo to return to their homes.
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Timeline – Cuska Case
Timeline of events in the case against 13 former Serb fighters charged with committing war crimes in the villages of Cuska, Zahac, Ljubenic and Pavlac in Kosovo in 1999.
Timeline - Transitional Justice in Serbia
Key dates and events in transitional justice in Serbia.