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.
A hearing in a war crimes trial was postponed over confusion caused by changes to the criminal code imposed by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s international overseer to ban the denial of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Survivors of the Srebrenica massacres welcomed the decision by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s international overseer to impose legislation to ban the denial of genocide and war crimes, but some Bosnian Serbs vowed to defy it.
Taking advantage of slack rules, professors from Serbia are teaching in Bosnia’s Serb-led entity as well – even if they have already met their work quotas at Serbian faculties, or lack a licence to teach abroad, BIRN can reveal.
The head of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s security agency has been arrested after an investigation into his suspected abuse of office, Sarajevo Cantonal officials confirmed on Wednesday.
As the anniversary of the July 1995 massacres by Bosnian Serb forces was marked at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, international officials condemned denial of the genocide and the continued glorification of war criminals.
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Bozidar Perisic was sentenced to ten years in prison for killing two Bosniak men in a village near Rogatica during the war in 1992.
Enver Buza, wartime acting commander of the Bosnian Army’s Prozor Independent Battalion, was sentenced to eight years in prison for failing to discipline his subordinates for killing 27 Croat civilians in the village of Uzdol in 1993.
Mothers of Srebrenica genocide victims are awaiting the final verdict in Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s trial next week - but as the years have passed, some mothers who followed the trial intently have died before seeing the justice they craved.
An unnamed former Bosnian Serb Army company commander was arrested on suspicion of failing to punish his subordinates for killing several Bosniak civilians in the Gradiska area during the war in 1992.