Bosnian War

Dusko Dabetic, a Serb sought by officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina for alleged war crimes committed during the Bosnian War, has been extradited by Turkey.

Dabetic arrived in Sarajevo at 7:31 p.n. local time on April 17 aboard a Turkish Airlines scheduled flight accompanied by two Bosnian police officers.

RS leader Dodik honors Srebrenica victims

POTOCARI -- President of the Serb Republic (RS) Milorad Dodik on Thursday laid a wreath for Bosniak (Muslim) victims at the Potocari Memorial Center near Srebrenica.

This was Dodik's first visit to the memorial, the Beta news agency reported, adding that his visit was announced at the start of the year and postponed twice.

BELGRADE - The president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations, Miodrag Linta, has urged the EU to request Croatia to start war crimes trials and stop glorifying its military operation "Storm".

Ten former Bosnian Serb Army troops were indicted for allegedly abducting 20 people from a train travelling from Belgrade to Bar in February 1993 and killing them.

A Sarajevo-based NGO has proposed a memorial to the unsung heroes of the Bosnian war - the women whose hard work and courage helped the city survive the 1992-95 siege.

Bosniak war victims welcomed the life sentence for genocide in Srebrenica given to former general Zdravko Tolimir, but Serb lawyers said it was an unjust, politicised verdict.

Leaders of the Bosnian Serb ruling and opposition parties exchanged harsh words over the weekend as the political struggle moved from negotiations about the formation of new governments to the next highly-disputed issue - a new mechanism for the coordination of EU projects.

Three indicted for war crimes committed against Serbs

SARAJEVO -- The Prosecution of Bosnia-Herzegovina has issued an indictment against three persons for war crimes that targeted more than 300 Serb victims.

The "wide-scale and systematic" attacks resulted in 16 deaths in the town of Livno in Bosnia in 1992 and in 1993, it was announced.

The Serbian government said it will not forcibly arrest war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj and hopes the Serbian Radical Party leader will return to detention at the Hague Tribunal voluntarily.

The mayor and leaders of a Bosnian Serb town are in hot water for advocating closer ties with Turkey - a country that many Bosnian Serbs see as the international champion of Bosnia's Muslims.