30. August 2016.
A Bosnian Serb referendum challenging the authority of the country’s Constitutional Court represents “direct political pressure” aimed at undermining the state-level institution, its president told BIRN.
Denis Džidić
25. August 2016.
Former prisoners testified about unhygienic conditions and malnourishment at a military prison in Ljubuski where they were detained in 1993 and 1994.
Prosecution witnesses Dzemil Sijercic told the state court in Sarajevo on Thursday that in October 1993 he was taken to the military investigation prison in Ljubuski, where conditions were poor and food rations were meagre.
24. August 2016.
At a trial for crimes in Srebrenica, a prosecution witness said that the defendant, Bosnian Serb ex-officer Srecko Acimovic, refused to send troops to assist in the killings of Bosniaks in July 1995.
Prosecution witness Dragan Stjepanovic told the state court on Wednesday that in July 1995 he was a commander of a division with the Second Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade and that defendant Acimovic was its chief.
23. August 2016.
At a Srebrenica genocide trial, a prosecution witness recalled how he survived the killings of Bosniaks in a meadow near the village of Orahovac in July 1995.
Prosecution witness Mevludin Oric told the state court on Tuesday that the morning after the fall of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, he started out with his father through the woods to Tuzla in a column of around 15,000 people who were fleeing the Bosnian Serb attack.
20. July 2016.
Lawyers for former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic have asked for his trial to be halted and two judges removed because of the ‘systematic bias’ of the UN court in The Hague.
19. July 2016.
The Hague Tribunal rejected Croatia’s request to be involved in the appeal against the conviction of six Bosnian Croat wartime officials, thwarting Zagreb’s strategy to prove the innocence of 1990s President Franjo Tudjman.
18. July 2016.
With no systems in place to shield the young from Islamist radicalization, it is up to parents and NGOs to win them back.
8. July 2016.
Former Bosnian Serb policemen Goran Vujovic, Miroslav Duka and Zeljko Ilic were sentenced to a total of 23 years in prison for crimes against humanity in Bileca in 1992.
The Bosnian state court found Vujovic, Duka and Ilic guilty on Friday of taking part in the abuse and torture of Bosniak and Croat civilians at the police station in Bileca and in a student dormitory in the southern town.
6. July 2016.
Over the past decade, more than 82 per cent of people accused of corruption have either been acquitted or given suspended sentences, indicating that the cases are minor ones or poorly investigated, experts claimed.
1. July 2016.
Returnee fighters from Syria and Iraq pose “biggest threat”, says Bosnia’s security minister, yet officials confirm intelligence-sharing between the divided state’s police agencies is slow or even non-existent.
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