The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, ECRI, has issued its first report on Montenegro, expressing concerns over the status of refugees in the country. 

Belgrade’s Special Court held a preliminary hearing on Wednesday for the trial of Serbian former paramilitaries charged with war crimes against Roma in July 1992

Seven Bosniaks accused of running three wartime prison camps, plead not guilty for the crimes committed against Bosnian Serb and Croat civilians and prisoners of war in the period between 1992 and 1996.

A witness says one of the accused members of Serbian paramilitary group was at work at the time the crimes were committed in Kosovo village in 1999.

Numbers of prosecuted war crimes in Croatia are “worryingly low”, claims Croatian state prosecutor Mladen Bajic.

The State prosecution and the defendants in the case of deportations of refugees from Montenegro to Republika Srpska in 1992 presented their cases in front of the Appellate Court on Friday in Podgorica. 

The trial of Ratko Mladic, the former commander of Bosnian Serb forces, is set to start on May 14, when opening statements will be presented.

Victims see the decision to keep indictments secret as offensive, while NGOs worry it will make the monitoring of trials impossible.

The denunciations of the Humanitarian Law Centre’s report on the head of the Serbian army reveal the strength of Milosevic’s ideology in Serbia today and the politicisation of the war crimes office.

With both governments in principle in favor of a bilateral agreement to withdraw mutual genocide claims, prospects for an out-of-court settlement are improving.

State prosecutor’s decision to end probe into 14 top suspects has inflamed Serbian opinion in Bosnia - and increased the possibility that Serbia’s courts will step up their own investigations.