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They were told: ''You bear responsibility, also for Serbia''

Lavrov said at a press conference in New York that some say that depleted uranium is not radioactive and that it is not included in the lists of the International Atomic Energy Agency, but that there are facts and interviews with people who suffered from the consequences of such missile attacks in the former Yugoslavia, in time of NATO bombing.

For Young Bosnians, ‘Postnormal Times’ Have Become the Norm

Pundits are quick to call the current situation the worst political crisis since the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995, which ended Bosnia's 1992-5 war. 

But on countless occasions over the past decade-and-a-half, analysts have voiced similar views. Bosnians have grown used to being told that they live in a crisis. 

Incitement to Murder: Civilians’ Role in the Holocaust in WWII Croatia

The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia was, for a long time, seen as an event in which Nazis played the dominant role. According to this narrative, the Ustasa were nothing more than executioners of their will while fascism and anti-Semitism were foreign ideas without any real roots in Croatia.

Serbia Frees Journalist’s Murder Case Defendants from House Arrest

Belgrade Court of Appeal has ended the house arrest order for two Serbian State Security operatives, Ratko Romic and Milan Radonjic, who are currently being retried for participation in murder of prominent opposition Serbian journalist Slavko Curuvija in April 1999.

How Croatia’s Jasenovac Camp Turned Men into Brutal Killers

Seventy-eight years ago, on April 22, 1945, brothers Mate and Stjepan Zukolo were among around 600 prisoners who took part in a major breakout from the main part of the Jasenovac concentration camp and death camp complex.

As the prisoners stormed the gate, attacking the guards with bricks and planks, the Zukolo brothers were immediately separated in the commotion.

Montenegro Urged to Reinvestigate 1999 Killings of Kosovo Albanians

The special state prosecutor's offices in Podgorica, Montenegro. Photo: EPA/BORIS PEJOVIC.

Five others were injured in the attack, which took place during NATO's 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia, aimed at making President Slobodan Milosevic end his repression of ethnic Albanians and withdraw his forces from Kosovo.

The 24th anniversary since the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija is marked today

He was killed with 17 bullets fired in the back in the hall of the building where he lived in the center of Belgrade in 1999, during the NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia.
It was not proven in court who shot Slavko uruvija. According to the verdict, he was killed by an unidentified person, while members of the State Security gave the executioner a logistical support.

War Crime Allegations ‘Absurd’, Kosovo Ex-Guerrilla Tells Court

Jakup Krasniqi told the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague during opening statements in the case against him and three other ex-guerrillas that he denies the charges, some of which he described as "absurd".

Krasniqi, 72, told the court he had nothing to do with the war crimes and crimes against humanity mentioned in the indictment.

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