Wednesday, 2 april 2025.
Far-Right Exploiting Pandemic to Spread Hate, in the Balkans Too
The far-right is creating a ‘them against us’ narrative in the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to pick up followers and spread hate. And Balkan states are not immune, according...
Bosnian Court Orders Wartime Rape Case Retrial
A court ruled that former Bosnian Army military policeman Adem Kostjerevac, who was accused of raping a Serb woman in Zvornik during the war in 1992, must be retried.
BIRN Fact-Check: The Questionable Claims of Bosnia’s Dodik
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik is threatening to escalate his efforts to cut ties between the Republika Srpska and the rest of Bosnia. But how far are his threats and...
After Terror Sentence, Islamic Evangelist Released to a Much-Changed Bosnia
Salafi preacher Husein Bilal Bosnic was convicted of recruiting people to go and fight for Islamic State, but while he was in prison, the Islamist militant group was defeated in...
Episode 129: Bilal Bosnic’s Exit from Prison a Taboo Issue
Husein Bilal Bosnic, a former leader of the Islamic Salafi movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, left prison on September 3, 2021 after having served a seven-year sentence for publicly inciting...
Bosnian Genocide Denial Ban Pleases Survivors, Angers Serbs
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...
Bosnia’s High Representative Imposes Genocide Denial Ban
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...
Bosnian Serb Report Claims Many Srebrenica Victims Weren’t Civilians
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...
Genocide Denial Condemned as Srebrenica Anniversary Commemorated
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...