21. October 2020.
Sixteen Bosniak men and one woman were seized by paramilitaries from the Bosnian Serb ‘Avengers’ unit and then abused and killed at a notorious hotel in Visegrad during the war in 1992.
Azra Husarić
15. October 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Predrag Bastah, who is already serving a sentence for war crimes, pleaded not guilty to involvement in the killings of 37 Bosniak civilians near Vlasenica.
21. September 2020.
A new peace monument in Srebrenica has caused a row between local Serbs and Bosniaks, who are upset that it features no reference to the July 1995 genocide of thousands of men and boys from the town.
4. September 2020.
Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina surreptitiously swap seats on the committees that oversee polling stations, and although it’s not illegal, it allows them to influence the vote count on election day to their own advantage.
10. August 2020.
A film about a remarkable hospital that functioned underground during the war in Bosnia – directed by BIRN BiH’s deputy editor – has its first showing at this year’s online Sarajevo Film Festival.
10. July 2020.
Denis Dzidic, director of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, was given a Nino Catic Journalism Award on Friday for long-term reporting about the Srebrenica genocide and for contributing to preserving the truth about the July 1995 mass killings.
3. July 2020.
A court in Orasje in Bosnia says people convicted by the town’s court martial during the 1990s war will soon be asked to start serving their sentences - but some insist that they didn’t even know they were being tried.
2. July 2020.
The Dutch government has established an expert commission to decide how much compensation to award to relatives of 350 men from Srebrenica after the supreme court ruled that the Netherlands had some responsibility for their deaths.
23. June 2020.
Emir Alisic, who is accused of unlawfully forming and joining foreign paramilitary or parapolice groups, which operated as part of so-called Islamic State in Syria, pleaded not guilty at the Bosnian state court on June 23.
10. June 2020.
Several Bosniaks were saved by courageous interventions from individual Serbs who defied potential risks to help neighbours during wartime in the town of Vlasenica in 1992, when many were detained and killed by Bosnian Serb forces.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.