Thursday, 3 july 2025.
Radovan Karadzic ‘Optimistic’ as Trial Nears End
Closing arguments begin next week at Karadzic’s war crimes trial, and his legal adviser told BIRN that the former Bosnian Serb leader believes he’ll be acquitted if the court is...
Capljina Crimes Suspect Arrested
The State Investigation and Protection Agency arrest, in the Mostar area, a person suspected of having committed crimes in Capljina in 1992.
Mladic Witness: Muslims Left Bosnia’s Rogatica ‘Voluntarily’
Thousands of Bosniaks were not driven out of the Rogatica area by Serbs in spring 1992 but actually chose to leave, a former local Serb politician told the war crimes...
Mladic Soldier: Muslim Paramilitaries Burned Serb Homes
Bosnian Serb ex-soldier Bozidar Krnojelac testified on behalf of his former commander Ratko Mladic that Bosniak forces torched Serbs’ houses in the Foca area in 1992.
Genocide Trial Archive Opens at Srebrenica Memorial
The Sense news agency, which covers war crimes trials, opened the new archive of case documents, witness testimonies and forensic evidence at the Srebrenica genocide memorial centre in Potocari.
Bojadzic with Beard
Testifying at the trial of Nihad Bojadzic for crimes in Jablanica, three Defence witnesses say that the indictee was skinny and had a beard in September and October 1993.
Bosniak Soldiers Indicted for Mostar Prisoner Abuses
The Bosnian state prosecution raised an indictment against five former Bosnian Army soldiers for abusing over 100 Croat civilians who were unlawfully detained in the Mostar municipality in 1993.
No Shelling of Sarajevo Civilians, Mladic’s Witness Says
A former Bosnian Serb Army officer told the war crimes trial of his commander Ratko Mladic that his brigade had no heavy weapons to attack Sarajevo and didn’t use its...
Bosnian Serb Soldier Misses Village Attacks Hearing
Ex-soldier Dragan Samardzija, accused of participating in attacks on Bosniak villages near Kljuc that left hundreds dead, did not appear for a plea hearing because he was having treatment in...