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The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for a third time rejected the early release request of the wartime leader of a Bosnian Serb Army reconnaissance unit who was sentenced to 28 years in prison for multiple rapes and enslavement in Foca.

A commission set up to recompense relatives of certain Srebrenica genocide victims because Dutch peacekeeping troops failed to protect them has paid out millions of euros in compensation for 611 of the victims’ deaths.

The Bosnian state court confirmed the verdict sentencing ten former soldiers to a total of 162 years in prison for participating in the mass execution of 24 Bosniak civilians in the Bosanski Novi area in June 1992.

Bosnia’s state court has confirmed its first-instance verdict and cleared Bosnian Serb Army company commander Rade Macura of involvement in war crimes in a village in the Bosanska Gradiska area in 1992.

The UN war crimes court rejected a request from former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic to grant him provisional release on humanitarian grounds or allow him to continue to serve his life sentence in Serbia.

A facility was opened at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre to store the remains, personal belongings and clothes of victims of the Srebrenica genocide who haven’t been identified – intended as a place of dignified remembrance.

Nino Bilajac, a journalist at BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been nominated alongside his colleague Tomas Madlenak for this year’s Slovak Journalistic Award in the ‘written investigative journalism’ category.

Former inmates of a Bosnian Croat-run Heliodrom detention camp near Mostar marked the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the dissolution of the facility by paying tribute to prisoners who were killed and sending out a message of peace.

Appeal judges at the Bosnian state court upheld the verdict convicting five former policemen of torturing Bosniak civilian detainees in the north-eastern town of Janja from 1992 to 1994.

Bosnian Serb Army ex-soldier Milenko Macanovic was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for war crimes for killing a Bosniak civilian prisoner who was detained at a school in Kljuc in 1992 and injuring another.

News

UN Court Again Rejects Bosnian Serb Commander’s Plea for Release

Netherlands Pays Compensation for Hundreds of Srebrenica Victims

Bosnia Upholds Serb Ex-Soldiers’ Sentences for Executing Bosniak Villagers

Bosnia Clears Serb Ex-Commander of War Crimes Against Civilians

Hague Court Rejects Ratko Mladic’s Plea for Provisional Release

Srebrenica Memorial Centre Houses Unidentified Genocide Victims’ Remains

BIRN Bosnia Journalist Shortlisted for Journalistic Award in Slovakia

Ex-Inmates Mark Bosnian Prison Camp Anniversary with Peace Message

Five Bosnian Serb Ex-Policemen Jailed for Torturing Civilians

Bosnia Convicts Serb Ex-Soldier of Killing Prisoner at School

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