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Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces besieged the Bosnian capital for several years in the 1990s and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, died Thursday while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84. Mladic died at a...

The Croatian parliament on Wednesday adopted a resolution proposed by the far-right Homeland Movement, which the party’s president and deputy speaker of parliament, Ivan Penava, said sends a message that Croatia will not stand by while the “electoral will” of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina is...

The European Union on Tuesday condemned the “inflammatory” statement of a Serbian government minister supporting the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians during the 1998-99 war. Snezana Paunovic, Minister for Local Government, on Monday told the Belgrade-based Kurir that she “would have ethnically...

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo said on Wednesday that “structural and operational shortcomings” continue to undermine the efficiency, consistency, and perceived fairness of war crime proceedings in Kosovo courts and that delays and procedural uncertainty risk affecting the rights of the accused, the...

More than 6,000 people on Wednesday set off from the village of Nezuk on the annual Peace March to the Srebrenica Memorial Centre in Potocari, retracing part of the route taken by thousands of Bosniak men and boys who fled the fall of the UN-declared safe area of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in July...

There have been angry reactions in Kosovo after the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague on Wednesday said the verdict in the war crimes and crimes against humanity trial of former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi will not be delivered...

BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday has launched its new “Virtual Memories” app that allows users to access virtual memorials at locations of war crimes in Bosnia that have never been officially marked. It includes narratives based on court-established facts, video testimonies of survivors and...

President Zoran Milanovic has stripped Branimir Glavas, a retired military general and politician, of his state decorations, according to a decision published on Wednesday in Croatia’s Official Gazette. The decorations were revoked following a ruling by the High Criminal Court of Croatia, which made...

A new report published on Monday says denial of the war crimes committed during the Yugoslav wars is routinely used by those in power in Serbia to discredit opponents, civil society organizations, and independent media, particularly during periods of political tension and public dissent. The report...

The Court of Appeals in Belgrade said in a statement on Wednesday that it has upheld the first-instance acquittal of wartime Bosnian Serb Army Drina Corps commander Milenko Zivanovic for crimes related to Srebrenica. On November 24, 1992, Zivanovic issued an order that stated: “Launch an attack...