International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Kosovo: War Commanders Questioned as Prosecutors Step Up Probes
After his invitation for interview as a suspect, Haradinaj, a former KLA commander, resigned as premier in July.
He has already been tried twice by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague and was acquitted both times, and he insisted that the Specialist Chambers would not undermine the KLA's legacy.
BIRN Launches Updated Map of Balkan War Crime Verdicts
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network on Wednesday published its updated and improved War Crimes Verdicts Map, enabling users to search rulings in cases from courts across the former Yugoslavia and from the UN tribunal in The Hague.
Yugoslav ‘Red Beret’ Army Brigades Fought in Bosnia – Witness
Three brigades of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav Army took part in fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993 and, like the special operations unit of Serbian state security, were known as 'Red Berets', a defence witness in the retrial of two top Serbian state security officials in The Hague said on Thursday.
Balkan War Photojournalists Recall Being ‘Witnesses to History’
US photographers Ron Haviv and Christopher Morris presented some of the most important of their images from the break-up of Yugoslavia in Zagreb on Tuesday evening, with Haviv saying that he went to the Balkan war zone in the 1990s to "witness history" for himself.
Serbian Security Chief Jovica Stanisic’s Release Extended
The UN-backed Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has announced that it has extended Jovica Stanisic's provisional release until April 30, 2020 because of his continuing illness.
It said that the extension was possible because "there is no indication that he has ever engaged in any practice undermining the administration of justice".
Bosnia Rejects Serb Paramilitary’s Crimes Against Humanity Appeal
The Constitutional Court rejected as inadmissible the appeal filed by Gojko Jankovic, the leader of a Serb paramilitary group from the town of Foca, who was sentenced to 34 years in prison for the unlawful detention, murder and torture of Bosniaks and the rape and sexual enslavement of young women and girls, one of whom was just 12.
Survivors, Relatives to Mark Notorious Bosnia Massacre Anniversary
Family members and representatives of the Association of Detainees in Bosnia and Herzegovina will mark the 27th anniversary on Wednesday of the murder of some 200 unarmed Bosniak and Croat men by Bosnian Serb police at Mount Vlasic in the first few months of the country's 1992-95 war.
Witness Denies Serbian SDB Behind Rebel Camp in Croatia
A defence witness in the war crimes retrial of former Serbian state security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic said on Tuesday that the State Security Service, SDB, that they led was not involved in establishing a training camp in a Serb breakaway statelet in Croatia in 1991.
Croatia’s State-Funded Gotovina Movie Reinforces War Myths
Gotovina became a national icon when he was indicted in July 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY for large-scale crimes against Serb civilians during and after Operation Storm. A broad section of the Croatian public supported his cause, seeing him as a victim of unfair treatment of the young Croatian state by the international community.
Kosovo’s Haradinaj Refuses to Answer War Prosecutors’ Questions
Ramush Haradinaj, a former Kosovo Liberation Army commander who announced his resignation as prime minister after being summoned for questioning as a suspect, was interviewed in The Hague on Wednesday by the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office.