“I still remember the day when Batko came to our place. I can even see him sitting in front of me and hear his voice“, D.B told IJT almost 20 years after she first saw Veselin Vlahovic Batko, known as “the monster from Grbavica”. D.B, who hopes to be called as one of the witnesses at the future trial of Vlahovic in Sarajevo, spoke under conditions of anonymity, not because of fear, but because of the ongoing investigation.

With Kosovo on the brink of declaring its independence from Serbia, the case against its resistance hero former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj came to an end on January 23 before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

On September 27, sixty-one year old Momcilo Krajisnik, president of the Assembly of Bosnian Serbs from 1991-1995, was sentenced to 27 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity. He was acquitted on the charge of genocide. Would the judges have ruled differently if his indictment had covered the Srebrenica massacre - a crime that has led to the only two genocide convictions before the ICTY?