Balkans: Local Courts Currently Unprepared to Try War Crimes
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/10/14/croati9500.htm
Domestic war crimes trials in Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina are marred by ethnic bias, poor case preparation, and other factors, Human Rights Watch said today. With the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal scheduled to finish investigations by the end of the year, many war crimes prosecutions remain to be heard in courts in the former Yugoslavia that, as a rule, are ill-equipped to handle them.