30. December 2021.
BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina's new database, Mapping Hate, documents hate speech, discriminatory rhetoric, the incitement of hatred and the denial of genocide and other war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
News
23. December 2021.
The UN court in The Hague granted a ten-month sentence reduction to the wartime political leader of Bosnia’s Prijedor municipality, Milomir Stakic, who was convicted of the persecution and extermination of Bosniaks and Croats.
23. December 2021.
Zdravko Samardzija, a former co-commander of a special police unit, is accused of involvement in the persecution, unlawful detention and killing of Bosniak and Croat civilians in the Kotor Varos area during wartime.
20. December 2021.
The Constitutional Court rejected wartime Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar’s appeal against his 20-year sentence for his involvement in killing 26 Bosniak civilians, including a baby, in Visegrad in 1992.
20. December 2021.
The Bosnian state court confirmed an indictment charging ex-police chief Nedjeljko Popovic with committing a crime against Bosniak and Croat civilians in Mrkonjic Grad during the war in 1992.
16. December 2021.
Police arrested eight former Bosnian Serb soldiers and policemen suspected of involvement in war crimes in the village of Zijemlje near Nevesinje in 1992, where almost 100 Bosniaks were killed.
15. December 2021.
BIRN opened an exhibition in Sarajevo and published a new book commemorating the journalists and media workers who were killed during and just after the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia.
14. December 2021.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network is holding an exhibition and publishing a book commemorating journalists and media workers who were killed during and just after the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia.
13. December 2021.
The Russian Imperial Movement, a far-right group designated a terrorist organisation by the US and Canada, claimed that it held a demonstration in support of war criminal Ratko Mladic outside Bosnia and Herzegovina’s embassy in Moscow.
10. December 2021.
Goran Saric, former commander of the Special Brigade of Republika Srpska Police, and others suspects in the 1992 mass murder of 22 civilians in the Bijeljina area – all arrested on December 3 – have been released to house arrest, it has been confirmed.
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