An extreme nationalist organisation from Turkey set up a Bosnian branch whose leader helped President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime target opponents from the so-called Gulenist movement for extradition, BIRN has found.
Media and watchdog organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina have exposed numerous scandals that have never been prosecuted, as evidenced by many investigative pieces put on display at an exhibition in Reporters’ House, Sarajevo.
Though officially expelled from Serbia in February 2021, US right-wing extremist Robert Rundo has managed to forge ties with a host of like-minded individuals and organisations active in Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Far-right Serb organisations, some known to flirt with neo-Nazism, have rallied in support of the Kremlin’s vow to ‘denazify’ Ukraine, winning applause from like-minded groups in Russia.
Appeals for volunteers from Bosnia and Serbia to join pro-Russian forces in Ukraine are getting a strong response on social media – but how many are actually going is less clear.
‘Day of Honour’, held in memory of Nazi garrison in besieged Budapest at end of World War II, is prohibited this year – with police citing extremism and fears for public order.
Historian Gideon Greif, who headed a Bosnian Serb government-funded commission that published a report on Srebrenica denying that genocide was committed, said he will issue a clarification confirming that 8,000 people were killed in massacres in July 1995.
Milenko Zivanovic, a former general and commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, was charged with directing armed units that attacked Bosniak civilians in the Srebrenica and Zepa areas in 1995.
Russian government-backed foundations have been holding events to promote reports denying the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, as Moscow seeks to exploit divisions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and increase its influence among the country’s Serbs.