Croat–Bosniak War

The post-electoral political deadlock in Bosnia in Herzegovina has stalled progress towards NATO membership, as political leaders fail to adopt the country's first Annual National Program, which the Western alliance requires as a condition for activating the Membership Action Plan, MAP.

Eight former Bosnian Army servicemen accused of the killings of more than 14 Croats in the village of Krizancevo Selo near Vitez in 1993 were charged with war crimes against prisoners of war and civilians.

The UN court in the Hague granted early release to Valentin Coric, one of the six leaders of the unrecognised Bosnian Croat statelet of Herzeg-Bosnia who were convicted for war crimes during 1992-1994.

Under strong local and international pressure, Bosnia's Central Election Commission, CIK, on Tuesday adopted a decision fixing the country's dysfunctional election law and enabling the establishment of a new government in the Federation entity, which it has lacked since last October's elections.

Three former Bosnian Army soldiers convicted of crimes against Croat civilian detainees in the Mostar area in 1993 had their sentences increased on appeal.

A year after six officials from the Bosnian Croat wartime statelet of Herzeg-Bosnia were convicted in The Hague, campaigners urged Croatia’s president to revoke the honours she awarded them before the verdict.

Eight former Bosnian Army commanders and servicemen were arrested on suspicion of killing captured Croat civilians and prisoners of war in villages in the Vitez area in 1993.

Four former members of the Bosnian Army were jailed on Tuesday for a combined total of 27 years for crimes against Bosnian Croat civilians in the village of Kruscica, near Vitez, during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.

Marijan Benes died on Tuesday at the age of 67 in Banja Luka, the main town in Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska.

Born in the Serbian capital Belgrade, Benes was known as one of the best boxers in Yugoslav history.

He won nine titles in Bosnia, four Yugoslav titles and a number of other competitions during his amateur career.

The Bosnian state court has sentenced five former Bosnian Croat soldiers to a total of 12-and-a-half years in prison for crimes committed in a camp in Ljubuski in Western Herzegovina.