Role of the media in the Yugoslav wars

The Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested three men, two Croat fighters and one Bosniak soldier, who are suspected of war crimes in Livno and Mostar during the 1990s conflict.

Nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj told the trial of former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic that the Yugoslav People’s Army was in charge of all Serb fighters during the conflict in Croatia.

The prosecution filed an indictment charging Resad Mujkic, a former fighter with Bosnian Croat forces, with crimes against civilians including the abuse and torture of prisoners in Odzak in 1992.

The state prosecution filed indictments against a Bosnian Army soldier accused of shooting several Croats and a Serb serviceman who allegedly killed two Bosniak women and their three children.

A Bosnian Serb lieutenant-colonel told Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial that he ordered an attack on Radio Television Sarajevo in 1995 because it was broadcasting ‘propaganda’ against Serbs.

The Bosnian state court has decided that it will no longer publish photographs of the accused, further limiting media access to crucial information about war crimes trials.

Former Bosnian Croat fighter Zdenko Jakisa was arrested in the US state of Minnesota on suspicion of committing a series of violent crimes against civilians during the 1990s war.

The Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested four former Croat fighters on suspicion that they committed war crimes including rape in the Odzak area in 1992.

Slobodan Milosevic was behind a joint criminal enterprise to force Croats from Serb-controlled areas of Yugoslavia, Zagreb argued in its genocide case against Belgrade at the International Court of Justice.