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A former Yugoslav People’s Army officer told the retrial of Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Serb volunteer fighters were brought to Bosnia in 1992 by political parties, not the security service.

How Bosnia’s neglect of its wartime displaced foreshadowed its latest humanitarian crisis. Milena Mitrović, Rogatica, Zvornik i Sarajevo On Easter Sunday 2010, Angelina Jolie came to the eastern Bosnian town of Rogatica and performed a miracle. The Hollywood star had been touring the country in her off-screen role as ambassador for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. […]

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BIRN is proud to announce BIRD, a unique platform that provides investigative journalists with a set of invaluable tech tools and resources, as well as various types of assistance. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) launched a cross-border journalism platform on Thursday with the aim of helping journalists all over the globe by providing them […]

The murder 20 years ago of notorious paramilitary chief Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, meant he never stood trial for war crimes - and two decades later, only one member of his much-feared Tigers unit has ever been prosecuted.

Dalibor Krstovic went on trial in Belgrade accused of raping a Bosniak woman who had been captured by Bosnian Serb forces and was being held at a school in Kalinovik in 1992. The trial of Dalibor Krstovic, a Bosnian Serb fighter during the Bosnian war who is charged with raping a Bosniak woman in the […]

Syrian camp returnee Qendresa Sfishta received a suspended sentence in Pristina on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges of joining the terrorist organisation ISIS.

Some of the war criminals from the 1990s conflicts who admitted their guilt in court spoke to BIRN about why they confessed - although some say now that they only expressed remorse to get shorter sentences.

The Belgrade trial of Bosnian Serb ex-fighters for the 1993 abduction and murder of passengers from a train in Strpci in Bosnia has seen witnesses change their stories to blame a man who has already been convicted. The first year of the trial in Belgrade for the abduction and killing of 20 passengers from a […]

An appeals court quashed the verdict convicting former Bosnian Serb Army soldier of the murder and attempted murders of Bosniak civilians in during the Bosnian war in 1992 and ordered a retrial.

BIRN has published an updated and improved version of its War Crimes Verdicts Map, an interactive tool that offers an overview of hundreds of court rulings on the crimes committed during the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network on Wednesday published its updated and improved War Crimes Verdicts Map, enabling […]

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Serbian State Security ‘Didn’t Take Volunteer Fighters to Bosnia’

No Country for the Needy: Bosnia Fails to House its Displaced

BIRN Launches New Investigative Resource Desk Platform

Arkan’s ‘Tigers’ Unpunished 20 Years after Leader’s Death

Serbia Tries Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter for Wartime Rape

Repatriated Kosovo Woman Found Guilty of Joining ISIS

Culture of Denial: Why So Few War Criminals Feel Guilty

Bosnian Train Massacre Trial: Witnesses Find Convenient Scapegoat

Belgrade Court Quashes Verdict Convicting Bosnian Serb Soldier

BIRN Launches Updated Map of Balkan War Crime Verdicts

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