21. November 2024.
Increasing numbers of Ukrainians are learning demining techniques at a training school in Kosovo – hoping to make a difference back in their war-ravaged home country, which has been massively contaminated by explosive devices.
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10. July 2024.
Ibro Zahirovic filmed life in the besieged enclave during the Bosnian war and captured the last moments before it fell in July 1995 – escaping with videos that were later used as evidence at the Hague Tribunal.
22. March 2024.
By testifying about beatings and sexual abuse suffered in Russian captivity, a woman from eastern Ukraine aims to inspire others to testify in order to document as many crimes as possible for ongoing and future trials. Comparing the experiences of suffering and trauma with those in Bosnia and Herzegovina, some Ukrainian activists fear that high-ranking Russian officials who gave orders will never be prosecuted.
27. February 2024.
Modelled on a similar project in Sarajevo, the War Childhood Museum in Kyiv documents Ukrainian children’s memories of their everyday life during the ongoing invasion.
20. February 2024.
The small town of Hostomel, close to Kyiv, took centre stage in early 2022 during the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Countless war crimes committed by the Russian army against the residents of Hostomel are currently under investigation and part of court proceedings. One such investigation was initiated by Lazer Taras, a local documentary filmmaker who told the Detektor team his story in the very street where Russian soldiers killed his neighbours.
16. January 2024.
Sarajevo-born Dzemil Hodzic uses his personal experience of searching for photographs of his brother, who was killed in the Bosnian war, to help preserve the memories of people who have lost their lives in contemporary conflict zones.
2. November 2023.
Some of the remains of people killed in the July 1995 genocide haven’t been unidentified and remain in storage. A new repository is being built at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre to finally give them a dignified resting place.
14. April 2023.
In April 1993, on one of the most tragic days of the Bosnian war, 116 Bosniaks were murdered in the village of Ahmici and 22 Croats were killed in the village of Trusina. Thirty years on, survivors are still mourning.
13. March 2023.
At the start of the Bosnian war, Albanians’ shops were attacked in the city of Doboj and Fadila Huduti’s husband was seized by Serb forces. When she read that a suspect was finally going on trial, she knew she had to tell her story.
23. January 2023.
Ahead of the appeal in the Hague court’s trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, the widow of a man killed by Serb fighters operating in Bosnia in 1995 said she wants to see justice done.
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