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SREBRENICA: Tens of thousands of grieving Bosnian Muslims attended a sombre burial ceremony on Saturday for 534 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, one of the bloodiest events in the 1992-95 Bosnia war. Bosnian Serb forces led by...
Tags: Srebrenica-Potocari, bosnians muslims, serb forces, 14th anniversary, Serb
A court in Zagreb found Branimir Glavas had given orders to a paramilitary unit under his command to abduct and murder 10 Serbs in the city of Osijek in 1991. The former general was charged last year after the Croatian parliament partially lifted his...
Tags: Branimir Glavas, war crimes, serb civilians, Zagreb, Osijek, Serb
A Serb officer jailed for the 1991 massacre of people seeking refuge at a Croatian hospital has had his sentence more than tripled to 17 years by a UN war crimes appeal court. Veselin Sljivancanin, who had been provisionally released in December 2007...
Tags: Veselin Sljivancanin, Vukovar, appeal chamber, The Hague, Croatia, war crimes, Serb
There are about 15,000 Nato peacekeepers in Kosovo, and extra troops were sent to Mitrovica after the last violent incident on Jan. 3 when two explosions destroyed cars and damaged property. The violence prompted local ethnic Serbs and Albanians to organise...
Mitrovica, the ethnically-split town in northern Kosovo, after a fresh spurt of violence between Serbs and Albanians over the weekend. Following an explosion that hit a number of cars near a Serbian bar in the town, local Serbs set fire to two Albanian-owned...
Tags: kosovo, albania, violence, serbs, serb, serbia, police, northern Kosovo, Mitrovica, serbs set
A Serb protest at the plans of a Kosovo Albanian to rebuild a house in Brdo in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, ended just after 13:00 CET. "At about 13:00 CET some 40 Serbs started moving in the direction of the house. The police then evacuated the owner...
Tags: kosovo, mitrovica, serb, violence, police, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo Albanian, Kosovo Serb
November 17, 2008 Unlike their political counterparts still at loggerheads over Kosovo, the Balkan territory's Albanian and Serbian criminal gangs have found common ground-running a fuel smuggling network. One of the immediate consequences of Kosovo's...
Bosnian Serb Nebojsa Radmanovic on Thursday took over the chairmanship of Bosnia's rotating state tripartite presidency for the next eight months, said reports reaching here from the Bosnian capital Sarajevo...Under the Dayton peace agreement that ended...
Tags: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian, EU Observer, Nebojsa Radmanovic, Serb, Muslim Haris Silajdzic
Tanjug Police in Kosovska Mitrovica say they are working to the identify the perpetrators of violence on Monday. A series of inter-ethnic incidents in the north of the divided town took place, injuring both Serbs and Albanians.
Tags: mitrovica, kosovo, serb, police, violence, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovos
International troops in Kosovo didn't have to use force to storm a courthouse in Kosovska Mitrovica, a report says. March 17, is thus criticized in the still unofficial document that came as a result of an internal investigation. The court building was...