The Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) was set-up in 2011 to conduct an independent criminal investigation into the very serious allegations contained in the Council...
The European Union (EU) must do everything it can to ensure Serbia addresses the culture of impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide,...
Almost everything is known about the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) camps for Croats set up in the territory of Serbia after the fall of Vukovar...
A new project aims to create a comprehensive database of all the prison camps and other wartime detention facilities across the country over the next...
In war crimes investigations, it is unusual to get a name. Victims and witnesses usually cannot distinguish between various forces – police, special police,...
Omar G. Encarnación, a professor of political studies at Bard College, is the author of the forthcoming “Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of...
Former Yugoslav countries have spent almost 40 million euro of public money supporting war crimes suspects on trial at the Hague Tribunal, a BIRN investigation...
Five children – Saranda, Jehona, Fatos, Lirie and Genz – survived an execution by firing squad in Podujevo on 28 March 1999, in which 14...
… and prompted the uprecendented ousting of Danish Judge Frederik Harhoff from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. His personal letter and subsequent...
The Hague Tribunal’s president Theodor Meron said the UN had failed by not setting up a reparations fund but defended his court’s record after a...
A Serbian rights group has filed charges against several former Yugoslav Army troops over the killings of 21 Kosovo Albanians during the conflict in 1999....
A Serbian human rights group has filed war crimes charges against four serving police officers over the killings of nine Albanians in the Kosovo town...