Friday, 4 april 2025.
BIRN Fact-Check: Trial Evidence Contradicts Claims in Bosnian Serbs’ Srebrenica Report
A report by a Bosnian Serb-funded commission has claimed the Srebrenica massacres were not genocide and most victims were not civilians – but some of its controversial assertions are contradicted...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighters’ Wartime Rape Sentences Reduced
The Bosnian court reduced by one year the sentences handed down to Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic for raping a Bosniak woman near Foca in 1992, jailing them for seven...
Belgrade Court Cuts Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier’s War Crime Sentence
The Appeals Court in Belgrade reduced the sentence convicting former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Radomir Kezunovic of war crimes from 14 years to five years.
Serbian Officials’ Verdict Rouses Grim Memories in Bosnian Town
War survivors in Bosanski Samac still remember the brutality of Serbian State Security fighters deployed to their town in 1992, where they committed crimes that eventually led to landmark convictions...
Silos: Forty-Two Years for Crimes in Hadzici Area
In a second-instance verdict, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced six defendants for crimes committed against Serb and Croat civilians in the Hadzici area to a total of 42...
Trial for Wartime Murders of 45 Villagers Opens in Bosnia
Nine Bosnian Serb officials, police officers and soldiers went on trial in Sarajevo for an attack on the village of Novoseoci in September 1992 in which 45 Bosniak civilians were...
Bosnia Convicts Serb Ex-Policeman of Crimes Against Humanity
Former reservist policeman Simo Stupar was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his involvement in killing, beating and illegally detaining Bosniaks in the Vlasenica area in 1992.
28 Years On, Families Still Searching for Missing Bosnian Soldiers
Empty graves are waiting for three young Bosnian Army soldiers who disappeared during an attack by Bosnian Croat forces in Mostar in May 1993, but despite their families’ efforts, their...
BIRN Fact-Check: Is the Bosnian Serb Report on the Sarajevo Siege Accurate?
A report funded by the government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity claims Serbs were subjected to ethnic cleansing in wartime Sarajevo, but its allegations differ from facts established by...