Friday, 11 april 2025.
Bosnian Bus Kidnapping Anniversary Commemorated by Victims’ Families
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...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Pleads Not Guilty to Bosniaks’ Murders
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.
New Srebrenica Peace Monument Sparks Dispute in Bosnia
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...
Bosnian Polling Station Abuses are ‘Mechanism for Vote Theft’
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...
BIRN Movie About Underground Hospital Premieres at Sarajevo Festival
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...
BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina Director Given Srebrenica Reporting Award
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...
‘Forgotten’ 1990s Bosnian Court Martial Sentences to be Enforced
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...
Netherlands to Assess Compensation for Srebrenica Victims’ Families
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...
Bosnian Pleads Not Guilty to Fighting in Syria
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...