International criminal law

The prosecutor told the UN that there was still a huge backlog of war crimes cases from the Bosnian conflict and progress towards clearing them by the 2023 deadline was unacceptably slow.

For the second day in a row, Bosnian police have arrested two men suspected of war crimes committed in the towns of Sekovici and Busovaca during the 1992-95 conflict.

The Croatian justice ministry has revealed the huge cost of taking the country’s genocide lawsuit against Serbia to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

No date has yet been set for a verdict in the marathon war crimes trial of Serbian Radical Party leader Seselj, who has been in custody since 2003, with the case stalled again by legal wrangling.

Bosnian police have arrested two men suspected of committing war crimes against civilians and prisoners in Zavidovici and Brcko during the 1992-95 conflict.

Former Bosnian Serb Army chief Mladic has begun his defence at the Hague Tribunal against charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 conflict.

Ten arrested on suspicion of human trafficking

BELGRADE -- The Serbian police have arrested ten people on suspicion that their organized crime group illegally crossed state borders and engaged in human trafficking.

This criminal activity took place between January and mid-May this year, the MUP said on Wednesday.

Bosnian justice minister Barisa Colak admitted that the country had not gone far enough to meet its goals in prosecuting people suspected of crimes committed during the 1992-95 conflict.

Albanian police said the four-month investigation was aided by exchanges of information between the office of the prosecutor for serious crimes and US law enforcement agencies.

“Fifteen suspects have been detained while an international warrant has been issued for another one,” the general directorate of police said.

Two unnamed former Bosnian fighters suspected of committing war crimes during the early 1990s conflict, including the torture and murder of civilians, were arrested in the Netherlands.