Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The defendants with their lawyers in court. Photo: Bosnian state court.

Camil Ramic, Mehmedalija Topalovic, Himzo Selimovic, Ramiz Micivoda and Mustafa Stovrag went on trial at the Bosnian state court on Monday, accused of committing crimes against prisoners of war who were beaten in custody.

The association's website says it is a non-political organisation whose main aim is "encouraging the realisation of the principles on which Republika Srpska is based".

Mirjana Markovic with her husband, Slobodan Milosevic, in 1997. Photo: Srdjan Suki/EPA.

The urn containing the ashes of Mirjana Markovic, widow of former Serbian and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, was buried next to her late husband in the garden of their family home in the eastern Serbian town of Pozarevac on Saturday.

Dragan Mektic, Bosnian Security Minister. Photo courtesy of N1

While most Bosnian politicians remain shy of social media, those who are present on it naturally cause a lot of attention, as has has been the case with newly registered Twitter user Dragan Mektic, the Bosnian Security Minister.

He added that it what is problematic is "that hysteria starts every time in the Federation of BiH (the Muslim-Croat entity, FBiH) when Serbs try to say they are still here and will stay here."

Chairman of Bosnian Presidency Milorad Dodik (R) and Member of Bosnian Presidency Sefik Dzaferovic (L) Caption, Photo: EPA/Fehim Demir

Djordjevic was quoted as saying that that Drvar has always been a Serb town, and Zeljko Komsic thinks this was "undiplomatic."

The Srebrenica massacres were classified as genocide by the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice.

Some 24 years after its 1992-95 war ended, Bosnia and Herzegovina's fragile stability - and with it the stability of the Balkan region - appears hostage to the whims of a politician notorious for his political strategy of 'shoot first, ask questions later'.

Atif Dudakovic outside court. Photo: BIRN.

The trial of Atif Dudakovic opened on Monday at the Bosnian state court, with the former commander and 16 Bosnian Army soldiers accused of participating in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at removing the Serb population from the Bosanski Petrovac, Kljuc, Bosanska Krupa and Sanski Most areas during the Bosnian war.