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.
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.
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.
Laws and counter-terrorism strategies in the Balkans demonstrate a failure on the part of governments to take seriously the threat from far-right extremism, according to a BIRN analysis.
Sakib Mahmuljin, former commander of the Third Corps of the Bosnian Army, was sentenced to ten years in prison for failing to stop Islamic volunteer fighters torturing and killing Serb prisoners.
Bosnia lags behind the rest of the Western Balkans in terms of its strategy on countering terrorism, particularly how to handle fighters returning from foreign wars.
In closing statements at the state court, the prosecution asked for Senad Kasupovic be found guilty of organising a terrorist group, while the defence called for an acquittal, claiming a lack of evidence.
After accepting a plea bargain, the Bosnian state court sentenced Emir Alisic to two-and-a-half years in prison for organising a terrorist group.
The UN court in The Hague rejected an appeal for early release from the wartime political leader of Bosnia’s Prijedor municipality, Milomir Stakic, who was convicted of the persecution and extermination of Bosniaks and Croats.
At the Bosnian state court’s trial of Jasmin Keserovic, who is charged with going to fight in the conflict in Syria, a prosecution expert witness said that four witnesses, all of whom were also in Syria, are not capable of testifying for medical reasons.
Hague Tribunal documents reveal the names of Croatian Defence Council brigade commanders and military policemen associated with the unlawful detention, abuse, rape and killing of prisoners in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Prozor-Rama area in 1992 and 1993.