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05 February 2010 |

Simon Cottrell It's a shame that the internet is a virtual medium, because there are a lot of people out there that I'd like to express my deep feelings of friendship to, and having spent the last two years here in Serbia, I'd like to do it in a truly Serbian way.


Feith: 'New Beginning' for Mitrovica
05 February 2010 | Lawrence Marzouk

The International Civilian Representative in Kosovo, Pieter Feith, has said the appointment of a team to create a new Serb-majority municipality in the divided city of Mitrovica could herald a 'new beginning'.

Skopje: UN “Name” Mediator Arrives February 23
09 February 2010 | Sinisa-Jakov Marusic

The UN envoy in the Athens-Skopje “name” dispute, Matthew Nimetz, will pay a visit to Skopje for a fresh round of talks with Macedonian leaders on February 23.

Koricanske stijene: Awareness of Security
09 February 2010 |

A member of the Intelligence-Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina says he spoke to Milorad Skrbic while investigating the murder at Koricanske stijene and "determined that he did not have any operational data about this event".



Serbian Police Arrest 5 War Crimes Suspects

Belgrade | 06 November 2009 | Bojana Barlovac
 
Serbia's Special Court in Belgrade
Serbia's Special Court in Belgrade
Serbian police arrested five persons Thursday night suspected of having committed war crimes against civilians in eastern Bosnia.

In an interview with Beta news agency, War Crimes Prosecution Spokesperson Bruno Vekaric said that there is a reasonable suspicion that the arrested had killed at least 23 Roma civilians on 11 July, 1992.

Vekaric pointed out that while the five connected to the case are in custody, the sixth and last suspect is already serving his sentence in a jail.

The identities of the five arrested remain undisclosed.

As specified in the Prosecution’s statement, the victims were first imprisoned and then physically and mentally tortured. The women were raped, men were forced to have homosexual intercourse, while a granddaughter and her grandfather were forced to have oral sex.

The statement also reports that three women were taken to the villages of Malesic, Petkovci and Drinjaca where they were kept at home, while at least 22 civilians were taken to the pits in the village Hamzic where they were killed.



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