Bosnian Serb Army veterans installed a new plaque in Sarajevo that honours their former military commander Ratko Mladic, defying legislation that prohibits the honouring of war criminals.
Appeals for volunteers from Bosnia and Serbia to join pro-Russian forces in Ukraine are getting a strong response on social media – but how many are actually going is less clear.
Zdravko Samardzija, a former co-commander of a special police unit, is accused of involvement in the persecution, unlawful detention and killing of Bosniak and Croat civilians in the Kotor Varos area during wartime.
Former military policeman Adem Kostjerevac was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a pregnant woman in the Zvornik area during the Bosnian war in 1992.
The far-right is creating a ‘them against us’ narrative in the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to pick up followers and spread hate. And Balkan states are not immune, according to the findings of a BIRN investigation.
Mendeljev Djuric and Petar Mitrovic, who were sentenced for the Srebrenica genocide, were examined before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina by way of the international legal assistance as defense witnesses at the trial for crimes in the village of Kravica conducted before the Higher Court in Belgrade. They denied having any knowledge of the crime in question.
The Chinese manufacturer of a ‘transport’ ventilator bought by Bosnian officials to treat COVID-19 patients had said publicly, repeatedly, that its product was not for critically-ill patients, but the purchase went ahead anyway, BIRN BiH and Singapore-based The Initium can reveal.
Wartime Bosnian Serb police reservist and army officer Rade Garic was sentenced to 20 years in prison for persecuting Bosniaks from the Vlasenica and Srebrenica areas in 1992 and 1995 in a series of crimes including several murders.