Saturday, 19 april 2025.
Bosnia Rejects Ex-Soldier’s Appeal Against Conviction for Killing Family
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...
Photographer Captures Memories of Bosnia’s Wartime Torment
Photographer Fabrice Dekoninck visited sites of massacres, torture, imprisonment and mass burials as part of his project to visually document people’s memories of suffering during the war in Bosnia and...
Collective Trauma: A Bosnian Author’s Diagnosis of Society
Novelist Lejla Kalamujic, whose writing has been shaped by her experience of siege and exile in the violent 1990s, says that the trauma suffered by Bosnian society during the war...
Bosnia Finds More Wartime Missing Persons in 2021
The remains of 80 missing persons from the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been found this year - an increase on last year, when searches were slowed down...
BIRN Launches ‘Mapping Hate’ Database in Bosnia
BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina's new database, Mapping Hate, documents hate speech, discriminatory rhetoric, the incitement of hatred and the denial of genocide and other war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnia Rejects Serb Fighter’s Appeal Against Mass Killing Verdict
The Constitutional Court rejected wartime Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar’s appeal against his 20-year sentence for his involvement in killing 26 Bosniak civilians, including a baby, in Visegrad in 1992.
‘Last Despatches’ Exhibition Commemorates Balkan War Reporters
BIRN opened an exhibition in Sarajevo and published a new book commemorating the journalists and media workers who were killed during and just after the 1990s wars in the former...
Bosnia War Crime Victims ‘Further Victimised’ by Courts Recovering Costs
NGO TRIAL International says some war crime victims who had their cases rejected have ended up in extreme poverty because of having to pay the costs of the proceeding to...