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For years, those suffering from PTSD have felt abandoned and forgotten while dealing with their traumas. Then the pandemic and war in Europe began, intensifying the loneliness and old nightmares which they thought to have suppressed.

Courts across the country have issued at least 172 warrants for the arrests of war crimes suspects, indictees and convicts who can’t be brought to justice because they are no longer in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN has learned.

Children’s growing obsession with electronic gadgets has both parents and psychologists worried –with some experts warning of serious harm to their development.

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A year ago, Croatia finally adopted a law granting compensation to civilian victims of the 1991-95 war - but few cases have been resolved so far, and even fewer relating to injuries sustained by Serbs during Operation Storm in August 1995.

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The UN, EU, OSCE and others have told Bosnia it must make the appointment of the three rights ombudsmen more open to the public and CSOs – or face penalties.

Although the European Union has placed the Russian oil company under sanctions, Motorways of the Federation, a public company, is running a campaign encouraging driver to fill their vehicles at its petrol stations.

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Serbia plans to prosecute four Croatian officers in their absence for air attacks on a convoy of fleeing refugees in 1995 – but experts say that because Zagreb is not cooperating with Belgrade, the case is likely to be flawed.

Bosnian war survivors and international organisations criticised a decision by Sarajevo’s Novi Grad municipality to name a street after general Mehmed Alagic, who died before the end of his trial at the Hague Tribunal.

A ban on a march commemorating victims of wartime persecution by Bosnian Serb forces in the city of Prijedor, which police say was imposed for security reasons, has been criticised as a violation of civil rights.

Moscow is busy selling its own version of the war in Ukraine to Bosnian citizens – cynically using analogies with the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica to justify its invasion and destabilize Bosnia at the same time.

Analysis

PTSD in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia Issues 172 War Crimes Arrest Warrants as Fugitives Dodge Justice

Digital Overdose: Bosnian Parents Struggle With Children’s Gadget Addiction

Croatian Serb War Victims Hope Compensation Claims Finally Pay Off

Bosnia Warned by UN Over ‘Non-Transparent’ Ombudsmen Selection Process

Bosnian Entity Road Company Ignores Sanctions, Promotes Gazprom Petrol Stations

Refugee Bombing Case Highlights Serbia and Croatia’s Enduring Antagonism

Street Named After Bosnian War Crime Defendant Angers Survivors

Police Ban on Bosnian War Victims’ Memorial March Condemned

Russia Targets Bosnia With Disinformation About Ukrainian War

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