Friday, 11 april 2025.
BIRN Offers Grants to Explore War Crimes Archives
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...
Wartime Landmines Still Taking Lives in Bosnia
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.
Bosnian Serb Schoolbooks to Teach Same War History as Serbia
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.
Serbian Court Cuts Female War Criminal’s Prison Sentence
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...
‘One Dark Night’: Fear Stalks Turks Sheltering in Bosnia
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...
Bosnia Moves Migrants, Refugees to ‘Unsuitable’ Forest Camp
Faced with a growing bottleneck in its northwest, Bosnia has moved hundreds of migrants and refugees to an isolated forest camp despite the threat from landmines, fire and sickness.
Serbian Security Chiefs Begin Defence at Hague Trial
In the defence’s opening statement at the retrial of former Serbian state security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, Stanisic’s lawyer told the court his client was not involved in...
Serbian Nationalist Flaunts Freedom with Ukraine Call to Arms
Bratislav Zivkovic has made no secret of his ties to Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but prosecutors in Serbia dropped an investigation against him.