Republika Srpska’s Ministry of Transport and Communication was ordered to provide the Transparency International NGO with the contract it signed with a Chinese company to build the Banja Luka-Prijedor highway.
Radoslav Brdjanin, wartime leader of a Serb-run rebel territory called the Autonomous Region of Krajina in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has died at the age of 74, a few days after his release from prison.
The Bosnian Federation entity’s Supreme Court upheld a verdict convicting former Bosnian Army deputy battalion commander Hajriz Doglod of torturing and then shooting dead a civilian near Vitez in 1993.
The Bosnian state court has upheld a verdict acquitting five former Bosnian Serb police officers of involvement in the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995 due to lack of evidence.
As the July 1995 massacre by Bosnian Serb forces was marked at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, international officials condemned continuing genocide denial and glorification of war criminals.
Relatives of 46 people who disappeared in the Hadzici area after being detained by Bosnian Serb forces during the war in 1992 rallied outside the state prosecutor’s office, calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Despite shelling and sniper fire, Sarajevo’s sportsmen and women kept on training throughout the 1992-95 siege of the city, and even managed to represent Bosnia at international tournaments.
Former soldiers Dzevad Avdicevic, Ahmed Hadzajlic, Muharem Efendic and Izet Ikanovic have been charged with abusing, beating and killing Bosnian Serb Army prisoners of war in the Teocak area in 1993.
Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, arrested two persons in the area of Zvornik and Rogatica suspected of involvement in war crimes in the Ilijas area during 1992.