Bosnia Hertegovina

War crimes suspect Ratko Mladic will make his first appearance before the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague on Friday at 10am. Mladic was placed in an isolation cell at the Hague Tribunal’s detention unit on Tuesday night as he awaited medical exams before his initial appearance in front …

A court in Belgrade is set to consider an appeal against the extradition of Ratko Mladic after it received the motion on Tuesday. Serbia’s Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric said that the Special Court for War Crimes had received the appeal on Tuesday, and a three-member chamber would now …

Thousands of supporters are protesting the arrest of Ratko Mladic. The Tuesday’s gathering is the biggest demonstration so far in Bosnia in support of Mladic, arrested last week in Serbia after 16 years on the run. Gathered in Banja Luka, the crowd chanted Mladic’s name, and carried his picture alongside …

The arrest of Ratko Mladic shifts the spotlight to Goran Hadzic, who is now the most wanted man in the Balkans. Serbian Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric said that search for Hadzic is now the country’s priority, explaining that Serbia will not stop until Goran Hadzic is captured.

Peter Sørensen, a Dane, has been appointed the European Union’s new ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The appointment was announced by Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, today (30 May), almost a year after the departure of the previous ambassador. 

Bosnian prosecutors filed charges Friday (May 27th) against a former Bosnian Serb soldier for war crimes against Bosniaks committed during the 1992-1995 conflict. According to the indictment, Milan Markovic was involved in the torture of several Bosniak prisoners of war in the Sokolac municipality from June 1992 to March 1993. 

The Prosecutor’s Office filed new charges Wednesday (May 25th) against Veselin Vlahovic, known as the “Monster of Grbavica”, for war crimes against Bosniak and Croat civilians committed during the 1992-1995 conflict.

Ratko Mladic’s arrest is fulfillment of Serbia’s international duties under the Dayton Agreement, President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik. “The institutions of Republika Srpska have never defended someone who committed war crimes,” said Dodik.

Consultations on appointing a new chair of the Council of Ministers are to begin next week, but there is still no agreement between parties about the main posts in the state government. 

The top international envoy in Bosnia, Valentin Inzko, and Muslim spiritual leader Reiss-ul-Ulema Mustafa Ceric have been plunged into row over religious education with each accusing the other of intolerance and religious incitement. The controversy was sparked by the