1. October 2019.
The Sniper Alley website aims to create a photographic archive as a permanent record of besieged wartime Sarajevo, enable Bosnians to access images from the period – and help its founder find pictures of his brother who was killed.
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24. September 2019.
A court in Belgrade jailed former Bosnian Serb fighter Zeljko Budimir for two years for assaulting and robbing a Bosniak civilian in Bosnia’s Kljuc municipality during wartime in November 1992.
Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday sentenced Bosnian Serb ex-fighter Zeljko Budimir to two years in prison for beating up a Bosnian civilian and stealing his money in the village of Rejzovici in the Kljuc municipality in November 1992.
19. September 2019.
A Belgrade court sentenced Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of Serbian State Security’s notorious Special Operations Unit, to eight years in prison for raping a woman in Brcko in Bosnia in June 1992.
Belgrade Higher Court on Thursday convicted Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of the Special Operations Unit, an elite Serbian special forces unit also known as the Red Berets, of raping a Bosnian women in Brcko on June 20, 1992, and sentenced him to eight years in prison.
11. September 2019.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network is inviting journalists to apply to attend a three-day training course on reporting about war crimes trials and other transitional justice topics.
5. September 2019.
BIRN is offering grants to journalists, artists, historians and activists to create projects based on the archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and domestic courts in former Yugoslav countries that held war crimes trials.
2. September 2019.
Since 1996, when the demining process started in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war, a total of 55 Bosnian deminers and 673 civilians have been killed by exploding ordnance.
23. July 2019.
From the next school year, high-school history textbooks in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska will be harmonised with Serbia, sharing the same standpoints on the 1992-95 war.
21. July 2019.
A far-right militant movement in Ukraine is forging ties with like-minded politicians and war veterans in European Union member Croatia, a BIRN investigation reveals. Chain-smoking in a Zagreb cafe, 43-year-old Denis Seler would hardly stand out were it not for the word AZOV emblazoned in Cyrillic on the front of his grey sweater. Seler is […]
16. July 2019.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Ranka Tomic, convicted of involvement in the torture and murder of a Bosnian Army nurse during the war in 1992, had her jail sentence reduced from five to three years on appeal.
16. July 2019.
Three years after a failed coup in Turkey, Bosnia is still under pressure from its close ally to hand over Turks it accuses of having ties to the alleged mastermind of the attempted putsch.
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