Friday, 4 april 2025.
One Day, Two Massacres: Remembering Bosnia’s Ahmici and Trusina Atrocities
In April 1993, on one of the most tragic days of the Bosnian war, 116 Bosniaks were murdered in the village of Ahmici and 22 Croats were killed in the...
BIRN Bosnia Publishes Database of ‘Judicially Determined Facts’ about Bosnia War
Single database resulting from two years’ work will serve as important educational tool and help counter disinformation about Bosnian war.
Bosnia Prison Camp Ex-Guards Face Trial for Torture, Killings
Bosnia’s state court confirmed the indictment of five former guards at the Trnopolje, Keraterm and Omarska wartime detention camps on charges that include torture, murder and allowing the rape of...
PTSD in Bosnia and Herzegovina
For years, those suffering from PTSD have felt abandoned and forgotten while dealing with their traumas. Then the pandemic and war in Europe began, intensifying the loneliness and old nightmares...
Bosnia’s Genocide Denial Law: Why Prosecutors Haven’t Charged Anyone
BIRN has obtained documents showing why Bosnian prosecutors haven’t filed a single indictment a year and a half after a legal ban on denying the Srebrenica genocide and glorifying war...
Batons and Blood: The Bosnian Music School That Became a Brutal Jail
Thirty years have passed since Bosnian Army troops detained and assaulted Croat and Serb prisoners in a music school basement in Zenica. In the Hague Tribunal archives, BIRN found names...
Serbia Agrees to Prosecute Suspects in Two Bosnian War Cases
The Serbian judiciary has taken over the prosecution of Milorad Kotur, who is accused of involvement in killing over 50 Bosniaks and Croats, and Lazar Mutlak, who is charged with...
Bosnian Serb Detention Camp Guards Charged with Prisoner Abuse
The Bosnian prosecution charged 15 former guards with crimes against civilians and prisoners of war who were detained at the Military-Investigative Prison in Banja Luka, known as Mali Logor, from...
Bosnia Charges Ex-Fighters, Policeman with Wartime Violence
The Bosnian prosecution charged two former Territorial Defence fighters with attacking Serb civilians near Kotor Varos in 1992 and a former policeman with violence against Bosniaks in the Foca area...