Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

THE HAGUE - Ratko Mladic, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), has requested that the prosecution's motion to re-open its case to present evidence about the Tomasica mass grave be denied as it would cause prejudice to his defence at this stage of the trial, the ICTY said in a statement on Thursday.

RS leader "convinced" entity will gain independence

BANJA LUKA -- Serb Republic (RS) President Milorad Dodik has said that Bosnia-Herzegovina is "a framework" that is endangering the Serb entity.

The former Bosnian Serb prime minister testified at Ratko Mladic’s trial in The Hague that he heard that individual soldiers committed crimes during wartime, but not the army itself.

Bosnian Serb forces did not have enough heavy weapons to terrorise the population of Sarajevo at the start of the siege, a defence witness told the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic.

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met Monday with the prosecutor of the newly established Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) Hassan Jallow, and underlined that more convicted Serbian citizens should serve their sentence in Serbia.

A defence witness told the Hague Tribunal that Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic couldn’t have ordered the killings of 7,000 Muslims from Srebrenica because it was out of character.

BELGRADE - At the opening ceremony of 'Days of Srpska in Serbia' held at the Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik sent out a joint message that regardless of the border, the two countries are connected through their people and culture.

BiH war crimes arrests lauded by ICTY

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic talked in Belgrade on Tuesday with President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik about the conclusions of the Berlin conference dedicated to Western Balkan countries.

THE HAGUE - Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow will arrive in Serbia on Sunday on an official visit, and then proceed to Sarajevo and Zagreb.

On September 9, Jallow will travel from Belgrade to Sarajevo, and then to Zagreb on September 12, the MICT's press office stated in a release on Tuesday.