23. July 2021.
Survivors of the Srebrenica massacres welcomed the decision by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s international overseer to impose legislation to ban the denial of genocide and war crimes, but some Bosnian Serbs vowed to defy it.
Nermina Kuloglija
23. July 2021.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official, High Representative Valentin Inzko, used his power to impose amendments to the country’s criminal code to ban the denial of genocide and the glorification of war criminals.
21. July 2021.
A report by a commission funded by the government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity claims that thousands of Bosniaks from Srebrenica who were killed in July 1995 were active soldiers, not civilians.
11. July 2021.
As the anniversary of the July 1995 massacres by Bosnian Serb forces was marked at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, international officials condemned denial of the genocide and the continued glorification of war criminals.
5. July 2021.
BIRN has identified at least 20 Twitter accounts that actively dispute the international court classification of the 1995 Srebrenica massacres as genocide. Their denial of the crime frequently goes unchallenged.
4. June 2021.
A few weeks ago, a minor drew a Nazi swastika on an obituary notice for a Jewish man that had been affixed to a fence in Sarajevo. The incident came as a shock to residents of Sarajevo, but our research shows that for more than a decade, a movement has been openly promoting neo-Nazi ideology and anti-Semitism in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Federation entity.
2. June 2021.
BIRN lifts the lid on the Bosnian Movement of National Pride, a secretive organisation promoting neo-Nazi Bosniak nationalism.
12. March 2021.
The UN court has again rejected a plea for early release from prison for Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serbian Adolf Hitler’.
10. March 2021.
Balkans states might be prepared on paper, but in practice they are struggling to confront the growing threat from cyber-attacks. Bosnia doesn’t have a state-level strategy.
8. March 2021.
The Security Ministry of Bosnia and Herzegovina has started collecting information for its final report on the implementation of the Action Plan for the Strategy for Preventing and Countering Terrorism, which expired late last year.
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