War Crimes Department

He used to be a police reservist in Vushtrri/Vucitrn, and was also a prison guard during the war, when he took part in the illegal detention of a large number of ethnic Albanian civilians at the nearby Smrekovnica detention centre from May to early June 1999.

A new report by the Humanitarian Law Centre NGO in Belgrade, published on Wednesday, said war crimes proceedings in Serbia are subject to long delays and that justice is being further postponed when retrials are held.

The War Crimes Department of the Belgrade Higher Court has sentenced two former members of the Militia and Territorial Defense of Sotin, a village in Croatia.

They were put on trial on charges of killing 16 Croatian civilians.

Belgrade court acquits man accused of killing 11 Croats

BELGRADE -- The War Crimes Department of the High Court in Belgrade has acquitted a former member of a Territorial Defense unit accused of killing 11 Croat civilians.

Zarko Cubrilo was a member of the Territorial Defense in Tenja, eastern Croatia. The civilians were killed in the summer of 1991.

BELGRADE - The remains of at least 34 persons have been exhumed so far from a gravesite at the Rudnica quarry in the municipality of Raska, southwestern Serbia, the Serbian government's Commission on Missing Persons stated on Tuesday.

A number of exhumed remains are undergoing forensic processes and identification by a team of forensic scientists from Serbia and EULEX experts.

Remains of 17 people exhumed in Rudnica

BELGRADE -- The remains of 17 people and a number of skeletal remains have been exhumed to date from a mass grave at the Rudnica quarry in the municipality of Raška.

This was announced on Tuesday by the Serbian Government Commission for Missing Persons.