Persecution of Serbs

BELGRADE - Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic stated on Tuesday that the investigation into human organ trafficking in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) and the Yellow House case has reached its end and that a decision now needs to be adopted as to whether the indictment would be raised or the case would be dismissed.

Organ trafficking case investigator to meet with PM

BELGRADE -- Clint Williamson is visiting Belgrade on Tuesday and and will meet Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić, it has been announced.

The American prosecutor heads an investigation team of the EU that is looking into allegations of human organ trafficking in Kosovo.

The authorities will investigate two more locations near a mass grave in the Serbian town of Raska, where the remains of 50 Kosovo Albanians thought to have been killed in wartime were found.

Banned Croatian player a reminder of need to halt hate speech

Sport officials call for co-operation between all stakeholders to continue efforts to stop hate speech and fan violence.

As Croatia takes to the field in the 2014 World Cup, it does so without one of its veteran players.

ZAGREB – Flowers in the colors of the Croatian “Chessboard” flag and shaped in the form of the U symbol of the Ustasha, Croatian pro-Nazi regime responsible for massive killings of Serbs, Jews and Roma in concentration camps during World War II, have been planted at the Jasenovac Memorial Site in central Croatia.

The remains of 27 people, believed to be Kosovo Albanians killed by Belgrade’s forces during the 1990s war, were exhumed from a quarry near the south Serbian town of Raska.

Former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Sylejman Selimi and three other ex-fighters were cleared of abusing prisoners at a KLA detention centre during the late 1990s conflict.

Croatian footballer to miss World Cup over fascist greeting

LAUSANNE -- The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has confirmed a sanction imposed by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) against Josip Šimunić.

Thus the Croatian national football team player's suspension remains in place, and he will miss the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

A Croatian far-right leader said he had been libelled by the director of the memorial park at Jasenovac, a concentration camp where tens of thousands were killed by the fascist Ustasa regime.

Several hundred people including top Croatian politicians gathered on Sunday at the monument to the Jasenovac victims to lay wreaths and attend a memorial service.

“At this site, a crime that was genocide was committed and it will always be painful and we will never forget it,” Croatian President Ivo Josipovic told the ceremony.