Persecution of Serbs

Dragisa Murganic, secretary of the Red Cross in Kosovo, told BIRN that they backed an appeal for Serbs in Kosovo to donate part of their income to the Serbian Orthodox Church's Diocese of Raska and Prizren.

"It is a good proposal. Everything that's in the interest of the people of Kosovo is welcome. We need to express a lot more solidarity in these difficult times," Murganic said.

Serbia's war crimes prosecution has asked Nigeria to quizz a senior doctor who has accused a state governor and Kosovo’s foreign minister Hashim Thaci of trafficking in human organs.

A witness at a rehabilitation hearing for Milan Nedic argued that the Nazi-backed WWII-era puppet government leader helped many Serbs survive the German occupation of the region.

A working group set up by the Serbian Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija, will create "an archive" documenting the crimes committed by the KLA.

Kosovo Serb political party chief Ivanovic, who was under house arrest pending his appeal against his recent war crimes conviction for ordering ethnic Albanians’ murders, was ordered back into custody.

The anniversary of the Novi Sad Raid - during which several thousand citizens were murdered, their bodies thrown under the Danube ice - was marked on Friday.

The massacres were committed by the occupying Hungarian fascist forces from January 4 until January 29, 1942, targeting the local Serb, Jewish, and Roma population.

The long-anticipated special court to try senior Kosovo Liberation Army fighters for war crimes and post-war offences will be set up in The Hague this year, it has been announced.

Workers of the Kosovo Ministry of Spatial Planning on Thursday welded shut the main entrance to the Temple of Christ the Savior in Pristina.

In this way, further desecration of this Serbian Orthodox church will be "partially prevented," Tanjug reported.

The supreme court annulled the verdict acquitting two former special policemen of war crimes against Serb civilians in the village of Grubori after the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm, ordering a retrial.

A court in Gjilane, a town in Kosovo, has ruled against 75-year-old Persa Stojkovic for her "flagrant violation of public order and peace."

According to the executive decision, the Serb woman from the village of Paralovo must either pay a fine of EUR 50, or spend three days in prison.