Serbian war crimes

Jovan Tintor, a former adviser to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, was convicted of being responsible for the unlawful detentions and abuse of Bosniak and Croat prisoners in the Vogosca area in 1992.

The Montenegrin authorities said they will change the law to impose penalties on anyone who stages commemorative events that praise war crimes convicts such as World War II Chetnik leaders.

Former Bosnian Serb policeman Sladjan Tasic faces trial for crimes against humanity after being indicted over the forcible disappearances of six Bosniaks who went missing in the Visegrad municipality in 1992.

Former Serbian State Security Service Jovica Stanisic’s defence denied that the ‘Tigers’ paramilitary unit led by Arkan and the ‘Scorpions’ fighters were commanded by Belgrade during the Croatian and Bosnian wars.

The prosecutor in the Belgrade trial of Bosnian Serb ex-soldier Dalibor Maksimovic, accused of killings and rapes near the Bosnian town of Bratunac in 1992, accused the defence of stalling the court proceedings.

At the trial of former Bosnian Serb prison guard Dusan Vukovic, Belgrade Special Court ordered an expert commission to be set up to determine the cause of death of an inmate he allegedly killed in Bosnia in 1993.

Bosnian authorities have charged 25 Muslim wartime officials and four Bosnian Serb officers with committing war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in the country's bloody 1990s conflict.

Former Bosnian Croat fighter Azra Basic was sentenced to 14 years in prison taking part in the killings, torture and inhumane treatment of Serb civilians and prisoners of war in 1992.

Three former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers were arrested on suspicion that they assisted and committed genocide and crimes against humanity against Bosniaks in the Vlasenica area in 1995.

An ex-member of the ‘Scorpions’ paramilitaries told the Hague Tribunal that his unit and the ‘Tigers’ led by Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, were under the control of the Serbian security service in the Bosnian and Croatian wars.