Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Drago Josipovic, who was jailed for 12 years by the UN tribunal in The Hague for a wartime attack that killed over 100 Bosniak villagers, is being buried in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosniaks applauded the life sentence handed down in 2019 to Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, but Serb politicians condemned it and analysts warned that each ethnic group still has its own version of the truth about the war.
Bosnian Serb Army ex-soldier Sabahudin Kajdic was charged with the persecution and murder of Bosniaks in the Prijedor area in 1992, while Dusko Suvara was charged with rape and sexual abuse in the Glamoc municipality.
The transfer of less serious war crimes cases from Bosnia’s state-level prosecution to lower-level prosecutors was supposed to speed up the processing of major cases - but plans to make this happen have not been fulfilled.
Alen Simic was four when he was seriously wounded and his parents killed by shelling in the Bosnian city of Tuzla in 1993 - and as he told BIRN, the perpetrators have still not been brought to justice.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s communications authority fined the Bosnian Serb public broadcaster 6,125 euros for airing a false report about the 1995 shelling of the town of Tuzla, in which 71 people were killed.
Over two decades after Sead Buturovic was given little improvised coffins containing his mother and sister’s remains, no senior officer has been convicted of command responsibility for the wartime killings of civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Konjic area.
Thousands of mourners including victims’ relatives attended the annual commemoration at the Srebrenica memorial centre, as 33 more people killed in the 1995 massacres were buried.
Hasan Hasanovic remembers how he and his brothers began a perilous trek from Srebrenica to escape Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 - but one brother was shot dead and the other injured, leaving him to try to carry his wounded sibling to safety.
The Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has jailed Samir Kesmer and Mirsad Menzilovic for six years each for raping a minor in Sarajevo in 1993.
The Appeals Chamber of the State Court in Bosnia has jailed two former former Bosnian Army members, following a retrial, for six years each, for raping a protected witness who was a minor at the time, in 1993.