Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday re-opened four cases of war crimes committed in that country during the 1990s.
It announced that criminal cases were being formed in connection with war crimes in Morinj, Bukovica, Kaludjerski laz, and the deportation of refugees from Herceg Novi.
As part of Yugoslavia, Montenegro took part directly in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina under the leadership of Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic, although it saw no conflict on its own soil.
From 1995 to the end of 2015, six trials were conducted in Montenegro for war crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
All four cases that the prosecutor’s office is re-initiating were previously legally concluded, but they can be re-initiated because war crimes do not have a statute of limitations. However, those persons who were legally acquitted for war crimes cannot be retried.
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