Persecution of Serbs

The Serbian President and Prime Minister said claims in a new report that Army chief Ljubisa Dikovic committed war crimes in Kosovo were malicious and intended to destroy the military’s reputation.

NGO accuses army chief of war crimes

BELGRADE -- The Humanitarian Law Center (FHP) NGO says it possess documents which indicate that Army chief General Ljubisa Dikovic is "directly responsible for war crimes."

The Serbian government called on the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo to grant bail to war crimes defendant Oliver Ivanovic to prevent further damage to relations between Serbs and Albanians.

GRACANICA, - MP in the Kosovo parliament and candidate for Gracanica mayor Nenad Rasic condemned the graffiti of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) written on the walls of the Orthodox church in Lipljan, and qualified the incident as an act of vandalism and a crime.

Police have boosted their presence throughout Kosovo in preparation for the main religious holiday of the Serbian minority.

Ice thrown at Serbian Pilgrims in Gjakova

Kosovo police arrested two members of the nationalist Vetevendosje Movement for throwing ice at a bus carrying pilgrims to Serbian Orthodox ceremonies in the western town of Gjakova.

Bus carrying Serbs attacked with stones in Kosovo

DJAKOVICA -- Ethnic Albanians in Djakovica on Tuesday attacked with stones a bus carrying some 40 Serb refugees from this Kosovo town.

The incident happened in front of a Serbian Orthodox church.

UNMIK "failed to efficiently investigate Kosovo organ trade"

BELGRADE -- An association of families of kidnapped and murdered Serbs in Kosovo has voiced its support for a recent opinion of a UN committee related to human organ trade.

ZAGREB - The remains of 20 Serbs killed in the armed clashes in Croatia were identified at the forensic institute of the School of Medicine in Zagreb on Wednesday.

The identification was attended by the victims' family members.

The remains of the victims, killed between 1991 and 1995, had been exhumed in Slunj, Zadar, Sibenik, Novska and other locations.

BELGRADE - Head of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta wants the Croatian authorities to publicly condemn the Ustasha graffiti painted of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) parish centre in Vinkovci and do everything in their power to arrest and punish the culprits of that and a number of other ani-Serb incidents.

15 years on, "no solution" for Kosovo IDPs - OSCE

PRIŠTINA -- 15 years after the Kosovo conflict there are still no lasting solutions for the return or integration of around 220,000 people "displaced outside Kosovo."