Families of 80 people who disappeared in the Brod area during the Bosnian war want more to be done to find their relatives, but officials say they need more information about hidden grave sites.
An exhumation in the grounds of a major hospital in the Bosnian capital unearthed fragments of bones, shoes and a wristwatch that are believed to have belonged to a victim of the 1992-95 war.
This month we will be talking about Chetnik movements and how they hold gatherings at places where crimes were committed during the Bosnian war. You’ll get to know the names of the Chetnik ‘dukes’ who have been accused and convicted of war crimes, and how Chetnik volunteers went to fight in Ukraine.
Court records in Bosnia reveal that prominent members of Serb nationalist Chetnik organisations have been charged with war crimes, while the Bosnian Security Ministry has warned that such groups are extremists who could pose a security risk.
Wartime Serb fighters Slobodan Bogdanovic and Goran Sladoje were both found guilty of physically abusing a Bosniak man and his son and using them as human shields in Sarajevo during the war in 1992.
The Bosnian Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from ex-soldiers Momir and Petar Tasic against their convictions for forcible disappearances and rape in the Visegrad area in June 1992.
The prosecution called on the Bosnian court to increase former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Sasa Curcic’s five-year sentence for raping a Bosniak woman during the war in 1992 in the Foca area.
Spomenko Novovic and Borislav Pjano were arrested on suspicion that they committed crimes against humanity, including the murders of Bosniak civilians, in the Foca area during the war in 1992.
Three members of the Ravna Gora Movement, a Serb nationalist Chetnik organisation, were charged with inciting ethnic and religious hatred at a uniform-clad rally in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad last year.
Former Bosnian Army Third Corps commander Sakib Mahmuljin, who is on trial for failing to stop Islamic volunteer fighters torturing and killing Serb prisoners, said he was not guilty of the crime.