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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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18 Apr 13 Church Accused of 'Senseless Provocation' in Srebrenica

EU Delegation and the US embassy to Bosnia called on the Serbian Orthodox Church to stop further construction of a church near the Srebrenica memorial to Bosniak war victims, calling it a provocation.

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18 Apr 13 Srebrenica Witness Changes Line on Executions

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.

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08 Apr 13 Bosniak Scholars Urge New Suit Against Serbia

A group of academics have published a book demandingthe revision of an International Court of Justice verdict that cleared Serbia and Montenegro of genocide in Bosnia.

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02 Apr 13 Bosnia to Bury Hundreds More Srebrenica Bodies

Between 300 and 500 genocide victims from Srebrenica will be buried at the nearby Potocari Memorial on this year's anniversary of the massacres by Bosnian Serb forces.

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14 Mar 13 Women ‘Washed Away Blood’ After Srebrenica Killings

At the trial of two Bosnian Serb officers accused of participating in the 1995 Srebrenica massacres, a villager testified about the killings of prisoners near his house.

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07 Feb 13 Srebrenica Genocide Witness Recalls Heavy Gunfire

The witness at the trial of two Bosnian Serb officers accused of killing 1,000 detainees from Srebrenica in 1995 said he heard “intense shooting” coming from a school.

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05 Feb 13 Bosnian Serb Retried Over Warehouse Massacre

A Bosnian Serb fighter accused of helping to kill more than 1,000 prisoners from Srebrenica in a warehouse in 1995 has gone on trial again.

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01 Feb 13 Bosnia's High Representative Urges Peace in Srebrenica

The top international official in Bosnia, Valentin Inzko, said the town needed investment as well as reconciliation to recover from its wartime tragedies.

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31 Jan 13 Srebrenica Massacre Witness Recalls Blood Clean-Up

At the trial of two Bosnian Serb fighters over mass killings in 1995, a fellow serviceman testified that he saw blood and a body on a village street.

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28 Jan 13 Bosniaks Call for Global Srebrenica Genocide Day

The World Bosniak Forum has asked the UN secretary general to commemorate the wartime massacres by declaring July 11 International Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day.

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15 Jan 13 Serbia Gives Landmark Payout to Bosnian Detainee

For the first time, Belgrade will pay compensation to a Bosniak who was held in a Serbian prison camp after fleeing from the fall of Srebrenica in 1995.

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11 Jan 13 Bosnian Serb Fighter Jailed Over Srebrenica Killings

A Bosnian court sentenced Bozidar Kuvelja to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the massacres in 1995.

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07 Jan 13 Bosnian Serb Jailed for Srebrenica Genocide

A Sarajevo court upheld the jailing of a Bosnian Serb army officer over the 1995 Srebrenica killings but cut his sentence.

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20 Dec 12 Srebrenica Trial: Traces of Blood in Petkovci Village

Testifying at the trial for the Srebrenica genocide, a prosecution expert witness said that the traces of blood were found in the Cultural Center and two school buildings in the village of Petkovci, near Zvornik, where Bosniak men were held in July 1995.

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Background

Profile

Karadzic: War Criminal or Poet?

To the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, was a true sensation, and one to be exploited day after day.  

Analysis

Srebrenica: Genocide Reconstructed

In July 1995 Srebrenica was shelled and occupied by the Army of Republic of Srpska,VRS, despite being declared a protected area by the United Nations. More than 7,000 people were killed, the victims of genocide.

Timeline

War in Bosnia

Key dates and events in the Bosnia war.

Analysis

Ratko Mladic: The Force Behind the Srebrenica Killings

The Bosnian Serb commander’s role in the genocide committed in Srebrenica is described in detail in many indictments and verdicts pronounced before local and international judicial institutions.

Report

The Indictment Against Ratko Mladic

Indictments in 1995 and 2000, further amended in 2002 and 2010, charge the former commander of the Republika Srpska Army with genocide and other crimes.

Profile

Ratko Mladic: From Promising Officer to Bloodstained Warlord

When Mladic ordered his army to bomb the people of Sarajevo until they ‘go insane’, he revealed the murderous intentions that would culminate in the Srebrenica massacre.

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