9. July 2021.
Djulsa Velic was one of around 40,000 women, children and elderly people who were expelled from Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, and her testimony has now become part of a major new oral history project.
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22. June 2021.
Thirty years ago, on the first day of Slovenia’s war for independence from Yugoslavia, helicopter pilot Toni Mrlak was shot down before he was able to defect - and his death has been the subject of political dispute ever since.
21. June 2021.
A new online ‘museum’ showcases the stories of some of the hundreds of thousands of people who fled their homes to avoid violence during and after the Kosovo war in 1999-98.
20. June 2021.
Refugees and migrants often encounter rejection and hostility in Bosnia – but in Tuzla some are finding inventive ways of building bridges with locals – and each other.
16. June 2021.
Historian Nicolas Moll’s new book tells the story of European humanitarian activists who braved the risks of war to deliver aid supplies by road to Bosnia during the 1992-95 conflict.
14. June 2021.
Campaigners for renaming a sports hall after handball player Goran Cengic – who perished trying to save his elderly neighbour in the war – are finally celebrating victory.
11. June 2021.
The reason why Milan Pantic was shot dead 20 years ago appears to be known. Yet no one has ever been charged.
2. June 2021.
Relatives of people who went missing in the Kalinovik are during the Bosnian war hope that the exhumation of a previously-unknown mass grave will finally reveal where their loved ones were buried.
2. June 2021.
Mothers of Srebrenica genocide victims are awaiting the final verdict in Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s trial next week - but as the years have passed, some mothers who followed the trial intently have died before seeing the justice they craved.
24. May 2021.
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti has vowed to revive the controversial idea of launching an international court case against Serbia for alleged genocide during the 1998-99 war, despite experts’ warnings that it’s unlikely to succeed.
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