At the beginning of this year we bring an overview of the most important trials held before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the gravest crimes.
After Gordana Tadic became Bosnia and Herzegovina’s new acting chief prosecutor, controversy erupted as the prosecution was accused of bias over the arrests of ten Bosnian Croats on war crimes charges.
A witness told the high-profile trial of the Bosnian Army’s former Srebrenica commander Naser Oric that the ex-general told him that he “cut the throat” of one of his alleged Serb victims.
Officials claimed that everything was calm but some locals were nervous as they continued to wait to find out whether a Serb or a Bosniak has won the mayoralty in the wartime flashpoint town. Although there is no final result yet from Sunday’s mayoral elections in Srebrenica, the Serb candidate, Mladen Grujicic, was keen to […]
The defence lawyer for former Bosnian Serb soldier Krsto Dostic called for him to be acquitted of rape in the Foca area in 1992, while the court set the verdict for October 6.
Presenting his closing statement on Monday, defence lawyer Milenko Vojo Radovic said the prosecution had not proved Dostic’s guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
Investigative journalism can bring about change and improve people’s lives, said Marty Kaiser and Blake Morrison, two senior editors who lectured at this year’s BIRN Summer School in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ahead of the 21st anniversary of the Srebrenica massacres, a woman whose two sons were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 remembers the day she saw them for the last time.