For three and a half years, the Bosnian Serbs strangled Sarajevo in the belief that one day it would be theirs. From outlying districts of the city, they cut off electricity, gas and water and shelled ...

In the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, in Bosnia, the scars of recent wars are both hidden and obvious. In former prison-camp neighborhoods where rape and torture were common, pockmarked buildings bear ...

Paramilitary Veselin Vlahovic, alias ‘Batko’, was given Bosnia’s longest-ever war crimes sentence for a campaign of murder, rape and robbery against Bosniaks and Croats in Sarajevo in 1992. The ...

tambi (c)n es la m ¡s elevada que se puede imponer por esos delitos. Bozic dijo que Vlahovic, miembro de un grupo paramilitar aliado con el Ej (c)rcito serbobosnio, sol -a pedir rescates en dinero u ...

Awash in daily news of mass savagery, collective memory grows short. We feel for the women of Afghanistan, but who these days remembers the war widows and rape victims of the 1992-1995 civil war that ...

But he added: "As the defence of the accused... we will lodge an appeal and contest a number of charges that we believe have not been proved." Vlahovic, sentenced on all 60 counts in his indictment, ...

Campaigners for renaming a sports hall after handball player Goran Cengic – who perished trying to save his elderly neighbour in the war – are finally celebrating victory. This post is also available ...

Spanish police have arrested Veselin Vlahovic, a Serbian known as the "Monster of Grbavica", who was the subject of three international arrest warrants for crimes allegedly committed during the ...

During the Bosnian War, the majority of Sarajevo was surrounded by Serb forces - but there was one area of the city that was controlled by the Serbs. Grbavica was a mixed area but many non-Serbs were ...

Sarajevo: Veselin Vlahovic, a former Bosnian Serb paramilitary dubbed the "Monster of Grbavica", was jailed on Friday for 45 years for inflicting a reign of terror on ...