Former brigade commander Radomir Nedic and former battalion commander Ratko Djurkovic were charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Ugljevik municipality in 1992.
Activists installed symbolic signs at unmarked and neglected ‘sites of suffering’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina where prisoners were detained, abused and killed during the 1992-95 war.
After the State Prosecution called on the Court to sentence Boro Milojica and Zelislav Rivic for crimes committed in the Prijedor area and their defense teams called for an acquittal, the Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced it would hand down a second instance verdict on October 26.
Former Bosnian Serb Army military police commander Zoran Malinic was charged with assisting the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 by coordinating officers who ambushed, captured and killed some of the victims.
The families of Bosnian Islamic State supporters held in camps in Syria say, after meeting the Security Minister, that they hope a group of women and children may be coming home soon.
Milivoj Petkovic, the former commander of the Croatian Defence Council, the Bosnian Croat wartime force, has been sent to Belgium to serve his sentence for crimes against humanity after being convicted by the UN court.
The Bosnian authorities will take legal action after the Bosnian Serb public broadcaster’s website and other media outlets revealed the name of a protected witness in a Srebrenica genocide trial.
Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina surreptitiously swap seats on the committees that oversee polling stations, allowing them to influence the vote count on election day to their own advantage – and it’s not illegal.
Hague Tribunal judgments and evidence files contain names of Bosnian Serb soldiers and policemen who have never been prosecuted for suspected involvement in killings, ethnic cleansing and detention camp abuses in Bosnia’s Prijedor area in 1992, a BIRN investigation has found.