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Cases Closed: Deaths of Ageing Balkan War Suspects Thwart Justice

Cases Closed: Deaths of Ageing Balkan War Suspects Thwart Justice
BalkanInsight_logoYears after the 1990s wars, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia have continued to slowly prosecute wartime crimes – but with increasing numbers of ageing suspects falling ill or dying, it’s likely that some cases will never see verdicts.

When the trial of a group of Serb fighters accused of the abductions and killings of passengers who were seized from a train in Bosnia during the war in 1993 continues at Belgrade Higher Court next month, there will be one fewer defendant in the dock.


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