28. December 2022.
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 the same year.
Lamija Grebo
15. December 2022.
Mirko Klarin was the editor-in-chief and founder of SENSE news agency, known for its comprehensive coverage of war crime trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
28. October 2022.
Despite the deadline set in the revised state strategy, war crime cases will not be completed by the end of 2023, judicial officials told BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina – a blow to victims’ families’ hopes that justice will be achieved.
12. October 2022.
Almost three decades after the last prisoners left the notorious Dretelj detention camp, several Bosnian Croat military policemen and security officers named in a Hague Tribunal verdict who could be suspects in the abuse and deaths of inmates have never been charged.
27. September 2022.
Djordje Ristanic, head of the Serb wartime leadership in Brcko in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, was cleared of participation in a joint criminal enterprise to persecute Bosniaks and Croats.
5. September 2022.
Radoslav Brdjanin, wartime leader of a Serb-run rebel territory called the Autonomous Region of Krajina in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was released after serving two-thirds of his 30-year sentence.
23. August 2022.
Former Croatian Defence Council, HVO military policeman Ante Pavic has been charged with committing war crimes against Serb civilians who were detained in Bosanski Brod in 1992.
4. August 2022.
The system of detention camps set up by Bosnian Serb forces during the war in 1992 was intended to torment and humiliate entire communities, genocide scholar Hikmet Karcic argues in a new book.
8. July 2022.
Bosnian war victims’ associations say high number of dropped investigations, almost 40 per cent of the total, is a cause for concern – and their names should be published.
5. July 2022.
At the end of July, exactly one year will have passed since former High Representative Valentin Inzko imposed amendments to the law, banning the denial of genocide and war crimes and the glorification of war criminals. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina has analysed whether and to what extent denial of genocide and war crimes has decreased, why no indictments have been filed despite dozens of criminal complaints, and how difficult it is to prove the glorification of war criminals or genocide denial. We spoke to victims of genocide and other war crimes to see how the glorification of those responsible for persecution, murders and genocide affects their lives.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.