Wednesday, 19 February 2025.
Olena’s Advocacy Journey Through Europe for Her Husband’s Freedom
Shortly after the Russians invaded Ukraine in February 2022, art teacher Olena Tsyhipa’s husband Serhiy, aged 63, was arrested by soldiers. She has not seen him since. Olena has lived...
Bosnian Serb Detention Camp System ‘Inflicted Mass Trauma’, Says Author
The system of detention camps set up by Bosnian Serb forces during the war in 1992 was intended to torment and humiliate entire communities, genocide scholar Hikmet Karcic argues in...
UN Advisor: Genocide Denial in Bosnia is Preventing Reconciliation
The dehumanizing political discourse in Bosnia increases the fear of a potential repetition of the crimes of the 1990s, the UN General Secretary’s special advisor on the prevention of genocide,...
Hague Court President: Recognising the Srebrenica Genocide is Necessary
Accepting that genocide was committed against Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 is necessary if there is to be meaningful post-war reconciliation, the new head of the UN court in...
Ukraine Tribunal Could Try Russian Leaders for Aggression
A special international tribunal would be able to prosecute senior officials for the crime of aggression during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and bring justice for victims, says international law...
Photographer Captures Memories of Bosnia’s Wartime Torment
Photographer Fabrice Dekoninck visited sites of massacres, torture, imprisonment and mass burials as part of his project to visually document people’s memories of suffering during the war in Bosnia and...
Collective Trauma: A Bosnian Author’s Diagnosis of Society
Novelist Lejla Kalamujic, whose writing has been shaped by her experience of siege and exile in the violent 1990s, says that the trauma suffered by Bosnian society during the war...
Bosnian Investigators Seek 20 Child War Victims in Nevesinje
Investigators in Nevesinje, a city in the country’s Herzegovina region, are still 20 children who disappeared during the 1992-95 war, the youngest of whom was just seven days old and...
Interview: Kees Van der Weide: Bosnia is Afraid to Punish Top Judicial Office Holders
The Dutch advisor to Bosnia’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, HJPC, says the proceedings conducted against the state court president and chief prosecutor highlight the system’s reluctance to impose serious...