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2006 Jun 5 |
Serbian lawmakers proclaimed their republic a sovereign state after Montenegro decided to split from a union and dissolve the remnants of what was once Yugoslavia. Links: Serbia, Yugoslavia 
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2007 Jun 12 |
In the Netherlands the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted Milan Martic (52), a wartime leader of Croatia's rebel Serbs, of murder, torture and persecution and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for the 1991-1995 brutal ethnic cleansing campaign of non-Serbs in Croatia. Links: Serbia, Netherlands, Croatia, Yugoslavia
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2007 Sep 27 |
A UN tribunal convicted Mile Mrksic (60), a Serb army officer, of clearing the way for the torture and killing of 194 Croats seized from a hospital in a 1991 massacre. Veselin Sljivancanin (54), the area's chief security officer, was sentenced to five years for failing to protect the Croats from beatings and torture by the local Serb paramilitary forces and Territorial Defense units. Officer Miroslav Radic (45) was acquitted of any wrongdoing. Links: Serbia, UN, Croatia, Yugoslavia
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2008 Feb 13 |
Vuk Obradovic (61), a former Yugoslav army general who was one of the opposition leaders who toppled strongman Slobodan Milosevic, died. Links: Serbia, Yugoslavia
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2008 |
Carla Del Ponte, a Swiss prosecutor, authored (with Chuck Sudetic) “Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity.” It covered her 8 years chasing Balkan war criminals. In 2009 this Italian edition was made available in English. Links: Bosnia, Switzerland, Serbia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Books
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2009 Feb 11 |
Judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal voted to suspend the trial of ultranationalist Serb leader Vojislav Seselj after the prosecution said its case was being undermined by witness intimidation. The decision came after 71 prosecution witnesses had already been heard and with only a handful still to testify. Links: Serbia, Netherlands, Yugoslavia
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2009 Feb 26 |
At The Hague UN judges in the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal acquitted former Serb President Milan Milutinovic of ordering a deadly campaign of terror by Serb forces against Kosovo Albanians in 1999. The court convicted five other senior Serbs and gave them prison sentences of between 15 and 22 years. The marathon trial started July 10, 2006. Links: Serbia, Netherlands, UN, Yugoslavia
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2009 Mar 17 |
In the Netherlands the UN criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia reduced the jail sentence of Bosnian Serb leader Momcilo Krajisnik from 27 to 20 years, quashing some convictions from a 2006 judgment. Links: Bosnia, Netherlands, Yugoslavia
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2010 Mar 20 |
Croatia and Slovenia hosted the 1st locally organized conference of the heads of government of the former Yugoslavia. Links: Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia
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2010 Jul 9 |
Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague cited Ratko Mladic's diaries, seized in a raid on his wife's Belgrade home in February, in a motion to reopen the trial of former Bosnian Croat political leader Jadranko Prlic and five other political and military Croat officials that ended two months ago. Links: Bosnia, Serbia, Netherlands, Croatia, Yugoslavia
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2010 Jul 21 |
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal ruled that Kosovo's former prime minister must be retried on murder and torture charges related to the country's 1998-99 war with Serbia, calling his acquittal two years ago "a miscarriage of justice." Tribunal President Patrick Robinson said the original trial for Ramush Haradinaj and two former Kosovo Liberation Army comrades was marred by intimidation that left two prosecution witnesses too scared to testify. Links: Yugoslavia, Kosovo
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2010 Nov 26 |
Serbia sent a formal request for the extradition of Peter Egner (88), a naturalized American citizen who is suspected of serving in a Nazi unit that killed some 17,000 Jewish and other civilians here during World War II. Egner was born in Yugoslavia and emigrated to the United States in 1960, gaining American citizenship six years later. Links: Serbia, Jews, Yugoslavia, Holocaust, Nazi, WWII
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2010 |
Jason Vuic authored “The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History.” Links: Yugoslavia, Cars, Books
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2011 Feb 22 |
Serb nationalist Vojislav Seselj deliberately revealed the names of 11 witnesses whose identities were being shielded by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal at the start of his contempt of court trial. Seselj has been in custody at the tribunal for eight years since turning himself in to face charges of plotting ethnic cleansing and inciting atrocities by Serb forces in Bosnia and Croatia as the former Yugoslavia crumbled in the 1990s. Links: Serbia, Yugoslavia
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2011 Feb 23 |
The UN Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague sentenced Vlastimir Djordjevic (62) to 27 years in prison after pronouncing him guilty of murdering at least 724 Kosovo Albanians, as well as committing inhumane acts, persecution and deportations. Links: Albania, Serbia, UN, Yugoslavia, Kosovo
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2011 Mar 16 |
US federal agents arrested Azra Basic (52), a Croatian woman in small-town Kentucky for alleged war crimes two decades ago in the former Yugoslavia. A complaint accused Basic of committing crimes at three camps near the majority-Serbian settlement of Cardak in Derventa. Authorities said that, as a soldier in the Croatian army, she killed a prisoner and tortured others by forcing them to drink human blood and gasoline. Links: USA, Serbia, Croatia, Yugoslavia
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2011 Sep 6 |
At the Hague, Netherlands, the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal sentenced Gen. Momcilo Perisic, the former chief of the Yugoslav army, to 27 years imprisonment for providing crucial military aid to Bosnian Serb forces responsible for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and for a deadly four-year campaign of shelling and sniping in Sarajevo. Links: Bosnia, Serbia, Netherlands, Yugoslavia
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2011 Oct 21 |
In Italy renowned international law expert Antonio Cassese (b.1937) , died after a long battle with cancer. He had served as first president of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and later as president of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Links: Italy, Yugoslavia
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2011 Nov 28 |
Yugoslavia's last PM Ante Markovic (87) died in Zagreb, Croatia. He tried to prevent the former country's bloody breakup in the 1990s. Links: Croatia, Yugoslavia
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2012 Jun 28 |
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal at The Hague acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one charge of genocide but upheld 10 other war crimes counts related to atrocities in Bosnia's bloody war. Links: Bosnia, Serbia, Yugoslavia, ICC
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2012 Nov 16 |
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague overturned the convictions of Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac, two Croat generals for murdering and illegally expelling Serb civilians in a 1995 military blit. Both men returned home to a hero's welcome. The acquittals enraged hardline opponents of the UN court in Serbia who accuse its judges of anti-Serb bias. Links: Serbia, UN, Croatia, Yugoslavia
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2013 Mar 27 |
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague convicted two senior Bosnian Serbs of war crimes in the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin were each sentenced to 22 years in prison. In 2016 appeals were rejected. Links: Bosnia, Serbia, Netherlands, Yugoslavia
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2013 May 30 |
The Int’l. Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) acquitted Jovica Stanisic, the former head of Serbia’s secret police, and his right hand man Franko Simatovic, ruling that they cannot be held responsible for crimes of special forces units in early 1990s. Links: Serbia, Yugoslavia
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2013 Jul 11 |
Appeals judges at the UN Yugoslav war crimes tribunal at The Hague reinstated a genocide charge against Radovan Karadzic linked to a campaign of killing and mistreating non-Serbs at the start of the Bosnian war in 1992. Links: Bosnia, Serbia, UN, Yugoslavia
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2014 Jan 8 |
A Croatian court ruled that Josip Perkovic, a communist-era intelligence chief, could be extradited to Germany where he is wanted over a killing of a Yugoslav dissident in 1983. On Jan 24 Perkovic was flown to Germany. Links: Germany, Croatia, Yugoslavia
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2014 Nov 2 |
Former Yugoslav Gen. Veljko Kadijevic (88), who was accused of war crimes in Croatia and who fled to Russia in 2001 to avoid testifying at a UN tribunal, died in Moscow. Links: Russia, Yugoslavia
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2015 Feb 3 |
The United Nations' top court ruled that Serbia and Croatia did not commit genocide against each other's people during the bloody 1990s wars sparked by the breakup of Yugoslavia. Links: Serbia, UN, Croatia, Yugoslavia
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2015 Aug 16 |
In Portugal former Serb army commander Mile Mrksic (68), serving a 20-year sentence for his role in the massacre of Croats during the Balkans wars, died in Lisbon. The former officer in the Yugoslav army (JNA), was convicted in 2007 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for aiding and abetting the torture and murder of nearly 200 civilians in Vukovar in eastern Croatia in 1991. Links: Portugal, Serbia, Croatia, Yugoslavia
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2015 Dec 15 |
The UN Yugoslav war crimes court quashed the acquittals of two top figures from the late Slobodan Milosevic's regime, ordering them to be retried on charges of running Serbian death squads in the 1990s. Judge Fausto Pocar said former intelligence chief Jovica Stanisic and his deputy Franko Simatovic must be retried on all counts of the indictment. Links: Serbia, UN, Yugoslavia
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2017 Jan 16 |
Former Yugoslav army general Vlado Trifunovic (78) died in Serbia. His treason conviction by Serbia's wartime nationalist leadership became a symbol of the senselessness of the 1990s' Balkan conflict. Links: Serbia, Yugoslavia
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2017 Mar 21 |
Bosnia and Russia signed an agreement to settle Moscow's $125 million Soviet-era debt to the Balkan country. In 2003, Russia took over the responsibility for the Soviet Union's debt to the former Yugoslavia estimated at $1.3 billion. Links: Bosnia, Russia, Yugoslavia
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2017 Nov 29 |
At The Hague appeals judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal upheld the convictions of six Bosnian Croats found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 1990s. Links: Bosnia, Netherlands, Croatia, Yugoslavia
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2020 Dec 9 |
It was reported that the restored flagship of former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito is being converted in Croatia into a hotel and a museum devoted to its turbulent history, from banana boat to meeting place for world statesmen. Links: Croatia, Yugoslavia, Museum
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