BIRN BiH, Author at Detektor

Three years after the Islamic State mass killings of Yazidis in Iraq, survivors want to emulate the bereaved women of Srebrenica and have the massacres recognised as genocide and the killers put on trial.

Recordings made by a Srebrenica man called Velid Delic, who was killed in the 1995 massacres, show life in the town during the war years - with poignant messages from people who never survived.

Excluded from the mainstream media, whose content is more heavily policed, the purveyors of extreme ideologies are spreading their messages of fear and hatred on social networks.

Former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Brane Planojevic went on trial for the murder and torture of civilians and prisoners of war at a detention facility in Rogatica from 1992 to 1995. The trial of Brane Planojevic opened on Thursday at the state court in Sarajevo with the reading of the indictment charging the ex-soldier with murdering, torturing and assisting in the rape of prisoners held at a detention centre at the Rasadnik farm in Rogatica.

Monika Ilic born Simonovic was handed over to the police of the Brcko District, where she went through arrest and her identity was established, after which the Prosecution would interrogate her.

The former Republika Srpska Justice Minister informs the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina of his mailing address, to which summons for his appearance before the Appellate Chamber of the War Crimes Chamber will be delivered shortly.

Former HVO member Edin Sakoc faces charges of sexual abuse and participation in murders in the Capljina area of Bosnia.

“Silent Scream” is a documentary that depicts the trauma that sexual abuse victims still feel twenty years after the end of the Bosnian war. Featuring the testimonies of women and men who survived sexual abuse during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as neighbouring countries, the documentary aims to encourage all victims to […]