7. November 2017.
Bosnia and Herzegovina should step up the prosecution of wartime crimes and uphold the human rights of all civilian war victims, a new Council of Europe report says.
Džana Brkanić
30. October 2017.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Sasa Savinovic was convicted of involvement in murders and forcible resettlement in Mostar in 1993 and jailed for eight years for crimes against humanity.
20. October 2017.
Serbian anti-war group Women in Black commemorated the 25th anniversary of the deaths of 16 Bosniaks from the Serbian town of Sjeverin who were kidnapped and killed by Serb forces in Bosnia.
6. October 2017.
Former policeman Milan Gavrilovic was cleared of committing inhumane acts against non-Serb prisoners who were being transported between detention camps in the Prijedor area in 1992.
The state court in Sarajevo on Friday found Milan Gavrilovic not guilty of committing crimes in the Prijedor municipality from May to August 1992 due to lack of evidence.
6. October 2017.
Former Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar was indicted for taking part in a massacre in which 57 Bosniak civilians were burned alive in a house in Visegrad in 1992.
The state prosecution indicted Radomir Susnjar on Friday for his role in the June 1992 mass killing of Bosniaks who were locked into a house on Pionirska Street in Visegrad which was then set on fire.
4. October 2017.
The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals launched an online multimedia exhibition giving insights into the suffering of children during the former Yugoslav wars and the Rwanda genocide.
2. October 2017.
The Bosnian state court deserves praise for completing hundreds of war crimes cases, but it still has a “long road ahead” to clear its huge backlog, its president Ranko Debevec told BIRN.
25. September 2017.
Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons said that 456 children aged 17 and under who were killed in the 1990s war - including nine babies - have been exhumed from mass graves so far.
21. September 2017.
The Dutch government has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling finding it partially liable for the deaths of around 300 Bosniaks from Srebrenica killed after being expelled from a Dutch UN peacekeepers’ base.
18. September 2017.
A prosecution witness at the trial of former Bosnian Serb soldier Boro Milojica said he watched the defendant open fire at around ten Roma civilians in the village of Volarici in 1992.
A protected prosecution witness codenamed S-3 told the state court in Sarajevo on Monday that he saw Boro Milojica, who is on trial over the killings of Bosniak, Croat and Roma civilians, open fire at the Roma villagers in Volarici.
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