19. July 2018.
Born in wartime Sarajevo to a mother who had been raped in a detention camp, then brought up by foster parents in Britain, Lejla Damon returned to Bosnia to seek the truth about her origins.
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5. July 2018.
Representatives of Serbia’s Roma community said they plan to sue the state at the European Court of Human Rights after a Belgrade court acquitted members of paramilitary group of killing 27 Roma civilians in 1992.
The National Council of Roma, the constitutionally-endorsed body representing the country’s Roma, and the Roma Centre for Strategy, Development and Democracy NGO said on Thursday that they will sue the Serbian state at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg over the recent verdict that acquitted six paramilitaries of killing 27 Roma in 1992.
12. June 2018.
A witness quit the landmark trial at a Belgrade court of Bosnian Serb ex-policemen accused of the massacre of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, saying he received threats despite his identity being protected.
8. June 2018.
A British parliamentary committee is demanding documents related to the shipment of 30 million Bosnian bullets to Saudi Arabia, which went ahead after London failed to pass on its suspicions about the deal.
7. June 2018.
Former US President Bill Clinton’s first novel, written with thriller author James Patterson, features a classical music-loving, vegetarian female assassin from Bosnia and Herzegovina as a main character.
24. May 2018.
A coalition campaigning for the establishment of the RECOM fact-finding commission on the 1990s wars said that it plans for the cross-regional body to start work in 2022.
The Coalition for RECOM presented an action plan on Wednesday which states that the Balkan truth commission should be constituted by 2021 and start work on April 16, 2022.
23. May 2018.
The European Court of Human Rights is to decide whether there is a legal basis for a lawsuit against Montenegro in a case related to the wartime deportation of 83 Bosniak refugees, who were later killed.
23. May 2018.
The landmark trial in Belgrade court for the massacre of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in the village of Kravica was postponed because a defendant reportedly slit his wrists several days before the hearing.
14. May 2018.
A commemoration of more than 50 Yugoslav troops killed by Bosnian forces will not be held in Tuzla, where it happened, because Bosnian Serbs say they haven’t been allowed to install a memorial plaque.
11. May 2018.
The president of the Croatian Journalists’ Association quit after refusing to revoke a decision to award a reporter accused of biased coverage of Bosnian Croat military chief Slobodan Praljak’s war crimes conviction.
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