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If Kosovo is serious about its European future, whoever forms the next government faces a big job to improve its justice system and human rights record.
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June, 2014
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13 June
Balkan ‘Dysfunctional’ Govts Blamed For Democratic Failings
Dysfunctional governments in Balkan countries continue to drive down democracy ratings in the region, according to Freedom Houses’s latest study, ‘Nations in Transit 2014’.
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13 June
Bosnia Cuts Srebrenica Genocide Convicts’ Sentences
Five former Bosnian Serb policemen were given reduced sentences of 20 years each for aiding genocide in Srebrenica following a retrial after their previous convictions were annulled.
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13 June
Balkan ‘Dysfunctional’ Govts Blamed For Democratic Failings
Dysfunctional governments in Balkan countries continue to drive down democracy ratings in the region, according to Freedom Houses’s latest study, ‘Nations in Transit 2014’.
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13 June
Bosnian Croat Fighter ‘Shot Prisoner at School’
A witness told the trial of ex-fighter Nikola Maric, accused of the detention, persecution and killing of Bosniaks in the Prozor area, that he saw the defendant shoot a fellow prisoner.
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13 June
Sarajevo Sends Peace Message on WWI Centenary
A hundred years on from the start of World War I, the city where it all began is putting on a range of events that send a message of peace after a ‘century of wars’.
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13 June
Serb Officer Insists Sarajevo Market Blast Was Staged
A Bosnian Serb Army officer insisted that Bosniak forces staged an attack that killed over 60 people at Sarajevo’s Markale market in 1994, Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial was told.
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12 June
Kosovo Leaders Squabble Over Right to Form Govt
Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and his main rival, Ramush Haradinaj, remain in deadock over who has the right to form a new government following inconclusive general elections.
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12 June
Croatians Protest Against Church Honouring War Criminal
Protesters rallied in front of the cathedral in Zagreb against Catholic bishops’ alleged ‘glorification’ of the homecoming of recently-released Bosnian Croat war criminal Dario Kordic.
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12 June
Bosnia Finds 11 War Dead After Floods
The bodies were exhumed after the recent floods that devastated the country washed up bones suspected to be those of Bosniaks killed during the 1992-95 war near Doboj.
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