The Belgrade Higher Court recently ruled that allegations published in the pro-government Serbian tabloid Informer constituted hate speech. The article in question accused various NGOs of receiving millions of euros from Western countries to create conflicts in Serbia and used anti-sematic and anti-Albanian tropes and slurs. The editor of the tabloid was ordered to publish the verdict and pay court fees.  

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The President of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic Milorad Dodik is pushing to reopen debate over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Earlier this week, Dodik launched a procedure in parliament demanding the body revoke a 2004 report by a previous government, which established that Serb forces killed about 8,000 Muslims in and around the town of Srebrenica during the country’s 1992-1995 war. While acknowledging the crime occurred, Dodik has repeatedly rejected rulings that describe the massacre as a genocide.

The Russian ambassador to Bosnia and Hezegovina canceled his visit to Srebrenica after Bosnian politicians said he was not welcome at the genocide memorial cemetery complex where the victims of the 1995 massacre are buried. The politicians said they were acting on the decision of families of victims of the genocide not to allow anyone who denies the genocide to visit. The families pointed to Russia’s 2015 veto of a UN Security Council resolution to mark the anniversary of the massacre as evidence of the country’s refusal to acknowledge the massacre.

Twenty Croatian Serbs who were killed in 1995 during Croatian military operations have been successfully identified, says the Croatian War Veterans Ministry. 1,509 Croatians are still considered “missing citizens” from the war, and the remains of 414 known-deceased have yet to be found.

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