A Serbian appeals court acquitted four former intelligence officers jailed for the brutal 1999 murder of journalist Slavko Curuvija, a fierce critic of late strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
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Ratko Romic and Milan Radonjic, two Serbian State Security officers on trial for participating in the murder of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija in 1999, were released from house arrest after six years.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Serbia violated the rights of two security service operatives on trial for the murder of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija by keeping them in custody for too long.
This report documents torture, killings, rapes, forced expulsions, and other war crimes committed by Serbian and Yugoslav government forces against Kosovar Albanians between March 24 and June 12, 1999, the period of NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia. The report reveals a coordinated and systematic campaign to terrorize, kill, and expel the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo that was organized by the highest levels of the Serbian and Yugoslav governments in power at that time.