Family and colleagues of Armin Soldin, a Bosnia-born French citizen who worked for the French news agency Agence France-Presse, AFP, marked the first anniversary of his death by rocket fire in eastern Ukraine by recalling his contribution to journalism. 👇
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The new facility to store remains of victims of the July 1995 genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces opened with a ceremony on Wednesday at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre in the village of Potocari.

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The rebuilt Arnaudija mosque, which was badly damaged in 1993 during the Bosnian war, was officially reopened at a ceremony attended by hundreds of Muslims in Banja Luka, the administrative center of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity. 👇

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Montenegro’s government was accused of appeasing its pro-Serbian coalition partners with proposed amendments to a UN resolution on the Srebrenica genocide to emphasise individuals' rather than specific ethnic groups' responsibility.

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Esat Bicurri was a singing star in Kosovo, but 25 years ago, he was shot dead by Serbian forces and his body hidden in a mass grave as part of a war crimes cover-up. His son tells BIRN about the family’s search for truth.

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The Bosnian state prosecution charged Serb nationalist activist Vojin Pavlovic with inciting ethnic and religious hatred by putting up posters and making a speech that denied the Srebrenica genocide.

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The head of the Kosovo govt’s Missing Persons Commission said EU’s foreign policy chief hasn’t replied to concerns about last year’s declaration with Serbia on finding missing persons from the '98-99 war, which isn’t being implemented yet.

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The Fond za humanitarno pravo condemned what it described as lenient sentences handed down to Yugoslav Army ex-soldiers who were convicted of war crimes by a Belgrade court for their involvement in massacres in four villages during the Kosovo war in April and May 1999. 👇

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After a marathon legal process, former Kosovo Liberation Army commander and ex-diplomat Sylejman Selimi and another ex-guerrilla were cleared of one of the war crimes charges against them.

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Former Bosnian Serb Army officer Mile Ujic was cleared of commanding troops who persecuted Bosniak civilians during an attack on a village in the Rogatica area in 1992.

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A Serbian court sentenced seven former Yugoslav Army soldiers to a total of 56 years in prison for committing war crimes during attacks on Kosovo villages in 1999 that left 118 ethnic Albanians dead.

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A memorial service was held for 16 media workers at state broadcaster Radio-Television Serbia who were killed when NATO bombed the station’s Belgrade headquarters during its air campaign against Yugoslavia in April 1999.

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Read the interview with Ilaz Bylykbashi, a photojournalist from Kosovo, who captured many historical events since 1970, including the aftermath of the 1998 massacre of Kosovo Liberation Army fighter Adem Jashari and 58 others. 👇

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Exactly 25 years after Yugoslav Army troops killed 6 Kosovo Albanians, including 2 children, in a border village, the Montenegrin President says the quest for justice and truth about the crime must continue – and a memorial should be put up to the victims.
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