Wednesday, 12 august 2026.
Decades-Old Story of Sarajevo ‘Sniper Safari’ Still in the Realm of Rumour
Thirty years after they were first aired, claims that hundreds of foreigners paid Bosnian Serb forces for the chance to shoot at besieged Sarajevans have resurfaced. But the evidence remains...
Detektor Disinfo: US Lobbyist Spreads Falsehoods About Seizure of Church Property
Rod Blagojevich, who is paid to lobby for Republika Srpska, has promoted claims that “Muslim officials” in Bosnia and Herzegovina want to usurp Orthodox Church property. Experts explain that what...
Serb War Criminals Given Grants by Bosnian Municipality
The city administration in Serb-led Prijedor approved the payment of housing assistance from the local budget to former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Ilija Zoric and Ljubisa Cetic, who were both...
Bosnian Canton Incorporates Judicially Established Facts into Teaching
Bosnian Podrinje canton signs memorandum on using BIRN’s Database of Judicially Established Facts about the War in Bosnia in schools.
New Blood Samples and More Experts Needed to Remedy Misidentifications After War
Every year in Bosnia and Herzegovina, families learn that the remains of persons they have buried, believing them to be their loved ones, were misidentified. However, such cases could be...
Funding and New Technologies for the Search for the Missing in Bosnia and Herzegovina At the Will of Politicians
As the years pass, families of victims still missing from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina grow increasingly desperate to locate the remains of their loved ones and lay them...
How a Letter Launched a 30-Year Search for a Family’s Burial Place
After the war ended, Ziba Kavazovic received a letter from a Serb neighbour, whose name she won’t reveal, describing how seven members of the Kavazovic family, including three children, were...
Bosnia Jails Man for Planning Terror Attack on Mosque
Bosnia's state court has confirmed the verdict sentencing Mirza Kapic to four-and-a-half years in prison for planning a terrorist attack on a mosque in the city of Zenica in 2023.