Wars of independence

A court ruling in Jerusalem to reject a request for information about defence exports to the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s Bosnian war has once again raised questions over the alleged use of Israeli military equipment by Bosnian Serb forces during the conflict, BIRN was told by the two Israelis who made the legal request.

Montenegrin police arrested Miroslav Jovic, a Serb convicted in absentia in Croatia of committing war crimes against Croats during the conflict in the country in 1991, media reported.

Former military security officer Ekrem Ibracevic was sentenced to three years in prison for committing crimes against Serb civilian detainees in the Srebrenik area in the summer of 1992.

Prosecutors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro, as well as the Hague Tribunal and the EU’s Kosovo mission, told a BIRN conference that states must work together to prosecute war crimes.

The U.S.-based Advisory Council for Bosnia-Herzegovina (ACBH) says it is strongly opposed to Vuk Jeremic's candidacy for the top UN job.

A statement issued by the NGO said that "apart from sending letters to various UN member states, ACBH also met with the U.S. Mission to the UN last week."

SARAJEVO - Church services were held and flowers laid in Sarajevo on Tuesday for the victims of a 1992 massacre of soldiers of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in the city's Dobrovoljacka Street.

Forty-two soldiers were killed, 71 wounded and 207 more taken prisoner in attacks by Muslim paramilitary forces and so-called Territorial Defence units on May 2-3, 1992.

SARAJEVO – Church services were held and flowers laid in Sarajevo on Tuesday for the victims of a 1992 massacre of soldiers of the former Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) in the city’s Dobrovoljacka Street. Forty-two soldiers were killed, 71 wounded and 207 more taken prisoner in attacks by Muslim paramilitary forces and so-called Territorial Defence

The Serbian national broadcaster removed a documentary about a war crime committed during the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm in 1995 from its schedule, citing alleged threats to the film-makers.

Several houses, vehicles and a memorial site were shot at early on Monday in the Serb village of Gorazdevac in Kosovo.

Nobody was injured during the incidents.

Emilio Bungur, who was convicted of war crimes against Serb civilian prisoners, was arrested near the Croatian coastal town of Sibenik after being on the run for ten years.