International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Several years later, he would become the youngest witness to testify at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, giving evidence about what his forces did that day in Gjakova/Djakovica.

Kapllani was deeply affected by his meeting with the boy in the Tirana hospital.

One of the most respected journalists in Serbia, Dejan Anastasijevic, a longtime correspondent for Time magazine, Vreme, Tanjug, B92, the BBC and many others, has died in Belgrade after a long illness.

Born in 1962, Anastasijevic reported from the wars in the former Yugoslavia and wrote extensively about war crimes, earning the wrath of the Serbian authorities at the time.

The Srebrenica massacres were classified as genocide by the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice.

Vasvija Vidovic, a lawyer who has represented former Bosnian Army soldiers at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Bosnian state court, argued that defendants find themselves difficult financial situations because trials are long-running and very expensive.

When reaching their final judgement, the judges at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague will remain within the parameters of the appeals filed by the prosecutors and Karadzic's defence.

The Bosnian state prosecution on Wednesday charged Dragoljub Kunarac, alias Zaga, with crimes against humanity and the persecution of the Bosniak civilian population in the Foca area in 1992.

During the meeting Brnabic urged that every effort be made to ensure better treatment of Serbian citizens serving sentences handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Speaking for Tirana, Albania-based broadcaster Ora News, the Swiss jurist also noted that Kosovo "cannot be a state."

Del Ponte explained that Haradinaj has been convicted in the first instance by the Hague war crimes tribunal, while Kosovo does not fulfill the conditions necessary to be a state.

The cabinet of Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic announced that the meeting with Ivan Vrkic and Veran Matic took place on October 25 in Zagreb.

The search for the remaining missing persons from the wars in the former Yugoslavia is still being hindered by politics, a BIRN conference on regional cooperation and post-conflict justice was told.