Wars of independence

The 12th anniversary of the murder of two young Serbs and the wounding of four others has been marked in the village of Gorazdevac in Kosovo.

A Dutch UN helicopter crashed on Tuesday in northern Mali near the city of Gao, killing two people.

The cause of the crash remains unclear and so far there have been comments neither from the Dutch defence ministry nor from the UN peacekeeping mission, the BBC reports.

Bosnian Serb war victims' groups condemned the prosecutor's decision not to open a war crimes investigation into Sefik Dzaferovic, the new president of parliament's House of Representatives.

EP: Most Croatian amendments rejected

BRUSSELS -- The demands of Croat MEPs to add a series of requirements related to the country's unresolved issues with Serbia to an EP resolution have mostly been rejected.

Most of these amendments either failed to pass "procedural filters" or have been watered down, Tanjug reported, after seeing the text of the harmonized amendments.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic talked on Thursday with U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp about prosecuting war crimes that took place in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

As the interior ministry stated in a release, Stefanovic and Rapp discussed the crimes against Serbs, but also those for which Serbs are responsible.

BELGRADE - Serbia's legal team presented convincing evidence before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Croatia committed genocide against Krajina Serbs during and after Operation Storm, President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta said.

BELGRADE - The District Prosecutor's Office in Rijeka raised the indictment against former member of the Croatian armed forces Rajko Krickovic for the murder of three members of Serb family Sovilj in the village of Kijane in 1995 during Operation Storm.

Former soldier Rajko Krickovic was charged with shooting two Serb civilians and burning another one alive in the village of Kijani after the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm in August 1995.

BELGRADE - The president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta on Sunday condemned as hypocritical a statement by Croatian President Ivo Josipovic, who has expressed regret over the provisional release of Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj from detention in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) without a conviction.

Veljko Kadijevic, the wartime commander of the Yugoslav People’s Army, who was accused but never convicted of war crimes during the conflict in Croatia, has died in exile.