Wars of independence

This Croatian military-police offensive took place in early August 1995, and also resulted in more than 200,000 Serbs being expelled from Croatia.

Of the victims, more than 60 percent were civilians, of which about three quarters over 60 years of age, Veritas said.

These reports quote neighbors who said the migrants broke into one of the apartments on the ground floor of a building where Karadzic's wife has her apartment, and then into another, where the family lived until the spring of 1992.

The neighbors claim they saw the migrants break into "one of the apartments" and stayed there.

Former Serbian security chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence lawyer told the UN court that an ex-member of the Red Berets unit lied about the defendant commanding an operation in Bosnia in 1994 and 1995.

France has extradited to Bosnia a former ethnic Serb solider accused of taking part in the burning alive of more than 50 Muslim civilians during the country's 1990s war, prosecutors said on June 24.

Former Serbian security service official Franko Simatovic’s defence told the UN court that a journalist who testified that the service controlled Serbian paramilitaries in the Croatian and Bosnian wars was not credible.

Former Serbian security service chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence denied journalist Dejan Anastasijevic’s claim at the UN court that the Red Berets unit and Arkan’s paramilitaries were used by the service in the Bosnian and Croatian wars.

Former Serbian State Security Service official Franko Simatovic’s lawyer told the UN court that the service had nothing to do with wartime violence in Bosnian municipalities which Serb forces took over in spring 1992.

The government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity has finalised a proposed law to grant rights to wartime torture victims - but campaigners fear it could discriminate against non-Serbs.

Former Serbian State Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence denied that the Red Berets unit was controlled by the service when it allegedly committed crimes during the Bosnian war in 1993.

According to the Veritas Center, on May 1 and 2, 1995 283 people, including 114 civilians and 11 militiamen were killed or disappeared, while 133 others remain listed as missing, including 59 civilians and 27 women.