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The Bosnian authorities are promising the European Union to switch to cleaner energy sources to reduce carbon emissions, but at the same time, foreign investors from countries like China, Turkey and Russia are being allowed to invest in plants that pollute the environment.

Often criticised for its attitude to war crimes, Serbia says it wants to try more cases, protect victims and cooperate better with other ex-Yugoslav countries to deliver justice – but key problems remain unaddressed in its new five-year strategy.

Victims of revenge porn in the Balkans face an uphill fight against legislative gaps, institutional prejudice, widespread victim-blaming and unethical media coverage. No wonder so few seek justice.

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 claims based in fact?

In the summer of 1992, the bodies of 114 Bosniak and Croat civilians were found in two mass graves at a municipal dump and a cemetery in the town of Mostar, but decades on, no one has prosecuted for their murders.

A year after the identity of a protected witness in a Srebrenica genocide trial was publicly revealed by media in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, putting his safety at risk, the Bosnian prosecution has not brought any charges.

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The arrest of a senior Bosnian police ex-official at the Serbian border angered Bosnian officials, who claim that the country’s wartime defenders are being unfairly targeted – but are the Serbian authorities’ actions legally justified?

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 Syria and other preachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina have changed their tactics.

Kosovo has begun to develop a national transitional justice strategy, intended to address the unresolved legacies of the 1998-99 war - but questions remain over whether the political will exists to avoid a ‘mono-ethnic’ initiative.

Years after the 1990s wars, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia have continued to slowly prosecute wartime crimes – but with increasing numbers of ageing suspects falling ill or dying, it’s likely that some cases will never see verdicts.

Analysis

Bosnia Displays Lenient Attitude to Foreign Investment in ‘Dirty’ Energy

Serbia’s New War Crimes Strategy: Route to Justice or Dead End?

‘Someone’s Daughter’: Unpunished Revenge Porn’s Terrifying Toll in the Balkans

BIRN Fact-Check: The Questionable Claims of Bosnia’s Dodik

Mostar’s Mass Graves: Unpunished Atrocities of the Bosnian War

No Charges Yet for Exposing Srebrenica Trial Witness’s Identity

BIRN Fact-Check: Is Serbia Unjustly Targeting Bosnians for War Crime Arrests?

After Terror Sentence, Islamic Evangelist Released to a Much-Changed Bosnia

22 Years On, Kosovo Plans Post-War Truth and Justice Strategy

Cases Closed: Deaths of Ageing Balkan War Suspects Thwart Justice

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