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A ceremony was held on Victims of Fascism Street in the Otoka neighborhood of Sarajevo on Friday, marking the 30th anniversary of the deaths of nine people who were killed when three mortar shells were fired from positions held by the Bosnian Serb Army. Five of the dead were children; 38 other...

Kosovo's prime minister Albin Kurti said on Monday he accepted a proposed European Union plan aimed at normalizing relations with Serbia despite concerns over Western demands to give more rights to local Serbs that have so far hindered a peace deal. Last month, Western envoys told Kosovo and Serbia...

The Bosnian state court on Wednesday found Momcilo Tesic, a wartime military policeman with the Bosnian Serb Army’s Vlasenica Brigade, guilty of committing a crime against humanity for killing 17 men from Srebrenica area in the village of Mrsici in the Vlasenica municipality on July 13-14, 1995. The...

The District Court in Doboj has confirmed an indictment charging Ante Pavic, a former military policeman with the Croatian Defense Council, the Bosnian Croat wartime force, with war crimes against civilians. According to the indictment, Pavic participated in beatings, unlawful detentions and rape...

The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have met in Brussels for another European Union-mediated attempt to resolve lingering issues between the two wartime rivalling states that have spiked tensions in the Balkans. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, speaking before Thursday’s meeting between Serbian...

Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office has opened a case against retired admiral Dragan Samardzic, the former Chief of the Army General Staff, over allegations that he was involved in war crimes committed against civilians in November 1991 in the area around the Croatian coastal city of...

State prosecutors said on Tuesday that they have filed an appeal contesting the verdict that cleared Dragan Vikic and three co-defendants of committing a war crime against prisoners of war who were killed in Veliki Park in Sarajevo in the early weeks of the siege of the city on April 22, 1992. The...

The 27th anniversary of the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica resulted in a new wave of digital violations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including hate speech and denial in the digital space. During the commemoration of the 27th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, on July 11, episodes of online hatred...

Thousands of people joined a peace march on Friday through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II. The 100-kilometre (60-mile) march traces a route taken by men and boys from the Bosniak ethnic group, which is made...

Relatives of 46 people who disappeared in the Hadzici area after being detained by Bosnian Serb forces during the war in 1992 rallied outside the state prosecutor’s office, calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. No one has been prosecuted over the disappearances so far. In 2009, the...