5. July 2022.
Public denials of the Srebrenica genocide have decreased significantly in the year since a ban was imposed on denying war crimes and glorifying their perpetrators, although prosecutors have yet to bring anyone to court.
Lamija Grebo
30. June 2022.
The Hague-based court denied a request for early release from Bosnian Serb general Radivoje Miletic, who is serving an 18-year sentence for committing crimes against humanity in Srebrenica in 1995.
27. June 2022.
The UN war crimes court in The Hague rejected an appeal for early release from prison made by Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader Milan Lukic, who is serving a life sentence for committing crimes against humanity.
23. June 2022.
The UN court will rule in about a year’s time on Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic’s appeal against their conviction for aiding and abetting crimes committed by a Serbian State Security Service special unit during the Bosnian war.
20. May 2022.
BIRN is making its database of established facts about the war available to the Memorial Fund for used in schools to counter disinformation and war crimes denial.
9. May 2022.
The US District Court in Washington DC rejected a request by Luka Karadzic to remove sanctions imposed on him for aiding his brother, Bosnian Serb war criminal Radovan Karadzic.
6. April 2022.
For families still searching for loved ones who went missing in wartime Sarajevo, the 30th anniversary of the start of the siege of the capital is a painful reminder that three decades of hope and anguish have passed.
5. April 2022.
As the 30-year anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo is commemorated, journalists who covered the outbreak of the war in April 1992 tell BIRN Bosnia’s ‘TV Justice’ programme how hate speech and militaristic propaganda fueled the conflict.
8. February 2022.
The state court confirmed an indictment charging former Bosnian Serb policemen Dane Bajic and Mijodrag Knezevic with involvement in illegal detentions, torture and murder in the Prijedor area in 1992.
14. January 2022.
The Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from former Army of Republika Srpska soldier Sretko Pavic, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing of five members of a Bosniak family near Prijedor during the war in 1992.
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