War Crimes Prosecutor's Office

The trial in the case against seven former Bosnian Serb special policemen accused of involvement in the killing of some 1,300 Bosniaks from Srebrenica in an agricultural warehouse in the Bosnian village of Kravica in July 1995 was postponed again at Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday.

The country's new five-year national strategy for processing war crimes, which was adopted by the government earlier this month, sets out how prosecutors, judges and other officials intend to move forward in the period from 2021 to 2026.

The commission will now also deal with murders and abductions of journalists in Kosovo and Metohija in the period from 1998 until 2001, and the killing of journalists in the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995.

The brothers Bytyqi traveled to Serbia to fight in the ranks of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the 1999 war in Kosovo. They were captured by Serbian authorities shortly after the war and sentenced to 15 days in prison for having illegally crossed the state border between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Albania.

According to her, the Serbian authorities are working on this process and finding and sanctioning the responsible persons.

BELGRADE - The Association of Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo and Metohija (KiM) said Friday that it will press charges before the domestic and international courts against the persons responsible for the crimes against Serbs and non-Albanians in KiM before and after 1999.

BELGRADE - The Trial Chamber of the Belgrade Appellate Court decided to annul the detention sentence for the indictees charged with the crime in Strpci and release them from prison pending trial, Tanjug learnt from lawyer Nebojsa Perovic.

BELGRADE - The police in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) and Serbia Friday morning arrested 15 persons suspected of kidnapping 20 people from a Belgrade-Bar train and killing them on the banks of the Drina River in Visegrad in eastern BiH on February 27, 1993.

BELGRADE - Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutor's Office and the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), which is the successor to the ad hoc Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) based in The Hague, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Belgrade on Monday.

BELGRADE - The War Crimes Prosecutor's Office and the Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) requested on Friday that the special court for war crimes committed in the territory of KiM should be set up as soon as possible so that the offenders could finally be identified and convicted.