28. February 2018.
Forty-four people have successfully sued Bosnia and Herzegovina for damages after being acquitted of war crimes in various cases and received a total of over 1.5 million euros in compensation.
Admir Muslimović
27. February 2018.
Human rights activists staged a commemoration at Belgrade’s railway station on the 25th anniversary of the abductions of 20 train passengers by Bosnian Serb fighters in Strpci in Bosnia in 1993.
Human rights groups Women in Black, the Humanitarian Law Centre and the Sandzak Committee for the Protection of Human Rights on Tuesday commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Strpci train abductions by holding up placards with the names of the victims in front of Belgrade’s main railway station.
22. February 2018.
Miroslav Duka, a former member of the Bosnian Serb police force, did not report to prison to start his 12-year prison sentence for committing war crimes against Bosniaks and Croats in Bileca in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
19. February 2018.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Vuk Ratkovic - charged with torturing, abusing and raping a Serb woman in Visegrad during wartime because she was married to a Bosniak - went on trial in Sarajevo.
12. February 2018.
The Defence Ministry is mulling measures against a Bosnian Army soldier whose praise for Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic on a social network were first reported by BIRN.
11. December 2017.
Hamdija Abdic, alias Tigar, who is considered a hero by Bosnian Army veterans, was arrested on suspicion that he was involved in the killing of a Bosnian Croat general in 1995.
Police in the north-western town of Bihac on Monday arrested Hamdija Abdic, the wartime commander of the Bosnian Army Fifth Corps’ 502nd Brigade, on suspicion of murder, the Una-Sana Canton prosecution told BIRN.
20. November 2017.
When Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, who faces judgment this week, met frightened Bosniaks after his forces took Srebrenica in 1995, he told them they wouldn’t be harmed - but then the massacres began.
17. November 2017.
On the eve of pronouncement of a verdict in Ratko Mladic case, which is due on November 22, a special debate has been produced in collaboration between the Balkans Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, and Radio Free Europe.
17. November 2017.
Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s defence team, plus his relatives’ visits to the detention unit and financial aid to him personally, have cost the Hague Tribunal, the Bosnian Serbs and Serbia over two million euros.
15. November 2017.
The former Bosnian Serb commander’s relatives still live in the rural village where he was born and where a street is named after him - and they insist he was not a murderer.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.