30. August 2017.
At events to mark the International Day of the Disappeared, people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia sought to raise awareness that 12,000 people are still missing from the 1990s wars.
Džana Brkanić
18. August 2017.
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic urged the UN to allow Serbian citizens convicted of war crimes to serve their sentences in their home country, although this request was not granted when he asked in 2013.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic asked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday to enable Serbian citizens who have been convicted by the Hague Tribunal to serve their sentences in Serbia, because of alleged “inhumane conditions” in countries where they are being placed.
14. August 2017.
Jasmin Causevic was 13 when he found himself in front of a Bosnian Serb firing squad - and despite being seriously wounded, he survived by hiding out in a basement for days.
27. July 2017.
Poison gas and other toxic chemicals were used dozens of times during the Bosnian conflict to torture and murder prisoners, but almost no one has been held directly responsible in court.
19. July 2017.
The state court rejected prosecution charges against four members of the Bosnian Serb Referendum Commission for failing to implement a Constitutional Court decision banning a controversial vote on the Day of Republika Srpska.
13. July 2017.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Almaz Nezirovic, convicted of war crimes against Serb civilians who were abused in a detention camp in Derventa in 1992, had his jail sentence increased to six years.
11. July 2017.
Former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Sasa Cvetkovic went on trial for war crimes against Roma and Bosniak civilians in 1992, including the murder of an elderly woman and the rape of a teenager.
10. July 2017.
Twenty-two years after the Srebrenica massacres, direct perpetrators of mass killings of Bosniaks at several lesser-known execution sites have still not been charged or put on trial.
14. June 2017.
Former Croatian Defence Council military policemen Muamir Jasarevic and Sead Velagic were jailed for a total of two and a half years for abusing civilian detainees in the Bosnian town of Livno during wartime.
13. June 2017.
In the second of two reports on the education system in Bosnia, where children are taught differently according to ethnicity, experts argue that segregated schooling is a way of keeping people divided. Three different curriculums – Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian – are taught in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s schools in parallel. There are no joint textbooks, […]
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