15. October 2021.
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik is threatening to escalate his efforts to cut ties between the Republika Srpska and the rest of Bosnia. But how far are his threats and claims based in fact?
Lamija Grebo
13. October 2021.
A decree from the president of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity declaring non-compliance with a state law banning the denial of genocide and war crimes has taken the country into uncertain legal territory.
20. September 2021.
The Srebrenica Memorial Centre marked the 18th anniversary of its opening by staging an exhibition of personal items that illustrate the suffering of victims and survivors of the 1995 genocide.
15. September 2021.
Police arrested former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Radovan Veljovic on charges of committing rape and sexual abuse during the war in 1992 in the Foca area of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
15. September 2021.
The Dutch advisor to Bosnia’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, HJPC, says the proceedings conducted against the state court president and chief prosecutor highlight the system’s reluctance to impose serious penalties.
8. September 2021.
The district court of Eastern Sarajevo passed down a first instance verdict, acquitting Milenko Gojgolovic of charges that he raped and treated a Susica detention camp detainee in Vlasenica in an inhumane manner in the summer of 1992, it was confirmed to the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH.
7. September 2021.
Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, who were convicted of aiding war crimes committed by Serbian fighters during the Bosnian conflict, claimed there was not enough evidence to declare them guilty and called for their sentences to be overturned.
12. August 2021.
Vinko Martinovic, who has already served prison time for wartime ethnic cleansing, was arrested in Bosnia and is wanted by Croatia to serve another sentence for the post-war murder of a Bosniak woman.
11. August 2021.
There has been a further decline in the number of war crimes cases being completed and the number of new indictments has also fallen, said the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
6. August 2021.
Experts say that the radicalisation of minors is becoming an increasingly challenging problem for Bosnia and Herzegovina, as schools lack the expertise and resources to tackle it and the authorities’ counter-extremism strategies are delayed and insufficient.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.