Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija, Author at Detektor

In the September edition of TV Justice we’ll be talking about a unique two-year investigation into the prosecution of corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina, disciplinary actions against judges and prosecutors, as well as the openness of judicial institutions to allowing insight into their operations.

For a third year running, staff at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre have been filming stories about the lives of residents of Srebrenica before and during the war, as well as their experiences of surviving the genocide. With stories filmed over the past year included, testimonials by 500 victims have so far been permanently preserved in the Memorial Centre’s archive.

The UN court in The Hague will hand down its verdict in the war crimes retrial of Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic after they appealed against their initial conviction.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Center of Bosnia’s Federation entity signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on developing an educational programme on genocide denial and hate narratives.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina’s ethnically-divided schooling system, teaching about the 1990s conflict is often one-sided and excludes important war crimes verdicts – so BIRN has created a database of court-established facts in an attempt to bring changes.

The Bosnian state court has asked Turkey for the extradition of Sakib Mahmuljin, wartime commander of the Bosnian Army’s Third Corps, after he failed to appear to serve his eight-year war crimes sentence.

For years, those suffering from PTSD have felt abandoned and forgotten while dealing with their traumas. Then the pandemic and war in Europe began, intensifying the loneliness and old nightmares which they thought to have suppressed.

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In a retrial for wartime rape of a Bosniak woman who was held prisoner at a school in Kalinovik in south-eastern Bosnia, in 1992, a Belgrade court sentenced Dalibor Krstovic to nine years’ prison.

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Husein Mujanovic’s sentence for abusing Serb civilian prisoners held in inhumane conditions in a Bosnian Army military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo in 1992 was reduced to four-and-a-half years on appeal.

The Bosnian prosecution charged former Croatian Defence Council fighter Robert Bresic with involvement in seizing and killing two Serb civilians, a father and son, in Maglaj during the war in 1992.

Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija

Episode 153: BIRN BiH and Transaprency Index Shows Judiciary’s Key Problems with Tackling Corruption

Episode 151: Srebrenica – Preserving Memories to Combat Genocide Denial

Serbian Wartime State Security Chiefs’ Appeal Verdict Due on May 31

Federation CEST and BIRN BiH Sign Memorandum to Boost Education on Genocide Denial

From Court to Classroom: Bringing Wartime Facts to Bosnia’s Schools

Bosnia Seeks Wartime Army Commander’s Extradition from Turkey

PTSD in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Serbia Again Convicts Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier of Wartime Rape

Serbia Cuts Bosnian Army Jail Chief’s Prisoner Abuse Sentence

Bosnian Croat Ex-Fighter Charged with Murdering Father and Son

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