Friday, 2 may 2025.
Officials’ Trial Could Verify Serbia’s Role in Croatian, Bosnian Wars
As the retrial of two top wartime officials of Serbia’s State Security Service enters its final phase, the verdict could establish the facts of Belgrade’s much-denied direct involvement in the...
Serbia Convicts Paramilitary of Killing Prisoner of War in Bosnia
Serb paramilitary fighter Nebojsa Stojanovic was sentenced to eight years in prison for killing a prisoner of war in the village of Kozuhe near Doboj in Bosnia and Herzegovina in...
Serbian Artist’s Pictures Tell Stories of Srebrenica Victims and Survivors
Young Serbian artist Jelena Jacimovic’s images of victims and survivors of the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, inspired by their personal testimonies in war crimes archives, are going on...
Access Denied: Most Balkan War Crimes Case Files Not Public
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia, most of the case files and evidence from war crime trials are not immediately accessible to journalists, researchers and the general public,...
Serbian Security Chiefs’ Retrial Resumes after Six-Month Halt
The UN court’s retrial of senior Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic for wartime crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina resumed after a break of almost...
Serbian President Plans WWII Jasenovac Memorial with Bosnian Serbs
President Aleksandar Vucic said that Serbia and Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska will build a memorial complex together to honour the victims of the World War II Jasenovac concentration camp in...
Court Records Reveal Croatian Units’ Role in Operation Storm Killings
BIRN’s analysis of Hague Tribunal evidence has revealed which Croatian military and police units were deployed in villages where Serb civilians were killed during and after 1995’s Operation Storm -...
Bosnian Serb Commander Accused of War Crimes Becomes Serbian MP
Svetozar Andric, a wartime Bosnian Serb Army brigade commander who was accused of expelling Bosniaks from the town of Zvornik, was officially confirmed as a member of the Serbian parliament...
Amnesty Urges Serbia to Drop Probe Into Critical NGOs
Amnesty International and the European Commission have expressed deep concern about what Amnesty called Serbia's ‘intimidating’ investigation into the finances of 57 NGO and individuals in Serbia – including BIRN.