The Bosnian state court has acquitted Slavko Milovanovic, a former member of the reserve police forces in the village of Skelani in the Srebrenica municipality, of crimes against humanity.

Milovanovic was found not guilty of going to the village of Resagici on May 8, 1992, with a group made up of members of the military, paramilitary, and police formations, participating in an attack, and giving an order to burn houses.

59-year-old Zoran Tadic is believed to have been living an ordinary life in Australia for more than 25 years, raising a family in the suburbs of Sydney and becoming an Australian citizen. However, the Special War Crimes Investigations Unit in Croatia last month laid charges of crimes against humanity under the Geneva Conventions against Mr. Tadic in absentia.

Twenty years after Serbian forces killed 44 people in the small Kosovo village of Reçak, the survivors still await justice. Serbian security forces attacked the village on the morning of January 15, 1999. Some locals tried to hide, but were discovered, beaten, taken away, and shot. Serbia initially insisted the casualties were all fighters from the Kosovo Liberation Army.

Lawyers in the Netherlands are preparing to bring at least four cases before Dutch courts seeking damages on behalf of a number of Syrian citizens for pain and suffering caused during the Syrian war, the latest European bid to bring a measure of justice to a conflict that has killed an estimated 500,000 people. They base their efforts in the principle of universal jurisdiction, whereby a state or international body can claim jurisdiction over the perpetrator of a crime regardless of where that crime was committed.