Thursday, 7 may 2026.
Sarajevo Siege: The Long, Desperate Wait for News of the Missing
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...
Episode 136: Bosnian Journalists Recall Escalating Ethnic Hatred as War Began
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...
Bosnia to Try Ex-Policemen for Crime Against Humanity in Prijedor
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.
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.