Protesters rallied outside Kosovo’s parliament against “degrading language” used by lawmakers in a debate about wartime rape victims that sparked widespread controversy.
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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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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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Relatives of Bosnian Serbs killed during wartime demonstrated in Sarajevo, claiming prosecutions and searches for missing people are carried out unjustly.
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Bosniaks from Serbia and Montenegro urged the authorities to find out who seized 19 people, who have never been seen alive again, from a station in Bosnia during wartime.
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Eighteen years after the war, the Bosnian authorities must adopt an umbrella law that will provide basic rights for some 200,000 people who were tortured, victims’ groups insist.
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Former prisoners allege that Bosnia’s Serb-run entity Republika Srpska is unfairly rejecting thousands of claims for compensation over wartime injuries.
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Victims’ families and political activists accused the Kosovo authorities of taking no legal action against those responsible for deadly violence in 2000.
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Serbs who suffered in the 1990s conflicts sent a letter to the Hague Tribunal saying recent verdicts acquitting Croatian and Kosovo officials of war crimes were politically biased.
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In a landmark ruling, the court said the state was to blame for the killing of two elderly Serb civilians after the Croatian military operation ‘Storm’ in 1995.
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A Bosnian research group has issued a book with the names of around 96,000 victims of the 1990s conflict, intended to be the most accurate memorial yet published.
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Croatian rights groups have called for legal reforms to ensure sex attackers during the 1990s conflict are prosecuted and their victims helped.
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Croatian Human Rights NGO has criticised the decision to make two sisters, war victims who sued Croatia for reparations and lost their case, pay court expenses or risk losing their property.
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The Parliament of the Serbian province of Vojvodina has adopted a declaration condemning war crimes committed during the 1990s wars in the region but local human rights NGO criticised it as a misuse of victims for political purposes.
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Human rights activists in various cities marched peacefully in order to point out crude violations of human rights across Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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