17. August 2018.
Bosnian Serb war crimes defendants Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic welcomed the UN court’s decision to allow them to make online video calls to their families while in detention.
Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija
14. August 2018.
BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday presented a story to film directors and producers about a boy who was abandoned after his mother survived the Srebrenica genocide as part of the Dealing with the Past programme at the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival.
10. August 2018.
A story by the Balkans Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, about a boy who was abandoned after his pregnant mother had survived the Srebrenica genocide is one of the five stories selected to be presented at this year’s Dealing with the Past Programme at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
10. August 2018.
The “Never Leave me” movie about refugee life of Syrian children is one of a few films about the war and its consequences that will be screened at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival.
19. July 2018.
Three former members of the police force in the town of Teslic in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity were charged with involvement in the wartime persecution of dozens of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in 1992.
The Bosnian state prosecution on Thursday charged Dusan Kuzmanovic, Predrag Markocevic and Marinko Djuric, who were commanding officers at the Teslic police station during the war, with committing crimes against humanity in 1992.
10. July 2018.
As the anniversary of Srebrenica approaches, Bosnian journalists recall how the shocking scale of the atrocities slowly became clear in July 1995 as information trickled out and the first eyewitnesses to the massacres spoke to reporters.
5. July 2018.
The Bosnian state court sentenced three former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina to a total of 16 years in prison for raping a Serb girl in Sarajevo in 1993.
The state court on Thursday sentenced Elvir Muminovic to six years in prison and Samir Kesmer and Mirsad Menzilovic to five years in prison each for raping a girl in Sarajevo’s Velesici district in 1993.
2. July 2018.
Prosecutors called for the conviction of Jovan Tintor, a former adviser to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who is accused of crimes against humanity against Bosniaks and Croats in Bosnia’s Vogosca area in 1992.
Prosecutor Adis Nuspahic said in his closing statement to the state court in Sarajevo on Monday that Jovan Tintor played a major role in the Bosnian war and should be found guilty of crimes against humanity.
24. June 2018.
Former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Radomir Susnjar, accused of involvement in forcibly detaining and burning alive 57 Bosniaks in Visegrad in 1992, was extradited to Sarajevo to stand trial.
12. June 2018.
Two former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers went on trial in Sarajevo on genocide charges, accused of killing men from Srebrenica, raping women and robbing Bosniaks of money and gold in July 1995.
Mile Kosoric, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Vlasenica Brigade, and Momcilo Tesic, a member of the brigade’s Military Police Squad went on trial at the Bosnian state court on Tuesday on charges of committing genocide in Srebrenica in 1995.
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