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Zoran Neskovic, Panto Pantovic, Slavisa Djeric, Nenad Ujic and Pero Despet are charged on 46 counts with inhumane treatment, murder and sexual abuse of civilians in Rasadnik detention facility in Rogatica, eastern Bosnia, between the end of July and December 22, 1995.

The 'Mother's Scarf' art installation, part of the Srebrenica Heroines initiative, will open next month at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre as part of commemorations to mark the 27th anniversary of the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces.

The Netherlands Compensation Commission Potocari opened the doors of its Sarajevo office to potential compensation claimants on Tuesday and its website is also open for applications from relatives of people who were killed after being taken from Dutch UN peacekeeping troops' base in Potocari near Srebrenica in July 1995.

The trial of Mile Ujic, who is accused of persecuting Bosniak civilians during a widespread and systematic attack in the Rogatica area, opened at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Thursday.

The Bosnian prosecution said on Monday that the incomplete remains of a war victim have been exhumed by investigators in Trnovo in the Sekovici municipality.

"The exhumation of the terrain at the Trnovo site, in the municipality of Sekovici, has been completed and the incomplete remains of one person have been found," the prosecution said in a statement.

Nermin Subašić was only 19 years old when paramilitary groups butchered him and scattered his bones in and around Srebrenica. Nermin was not the only one. More than 8,300 men, women and children were brutally slaughtered during the Srebrenica genocide, one of the darkest and most heinous pages of Europe's recent history.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu will pay a one-day visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina next month to attend memorial ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica, in which Bosnian Serbs killed nearly 8,000 Muslims during the 1992-95 war.

THE HAGUE - The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has upheld a life sentence for retired Army of Republika Srpska General Zdravko Tolimir for crimes against Srebrenica Muslims in July 1995.

Life sentence confirmed for former RS official

THE HAGUE -- The Hague Tribunal on Wednesday confirmed a life sentence handed down to retired General of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) Zdravko Tolimir.

The Hague Tribunal sentenced wartime general Zdravko Tolimir to life imprisonment for the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, but acquitted him on appeal of committing genocide in Zepa.