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Victims of the Srebrenica genocide have been found in more than 80 mass graves, most of which have not been marked and are hard to find. BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina documented the start of an initiative by victims’ families to mark some of these graves for the first time in the manner envisaged in the country’s Law on Missing Persons, which has already been in force for 20 years.

In this edition of TV Justice, we’re bringing you a story about the so-called Law on Foreign Agents. In Russia, this is a law that sanctions and shuts down media outlets, and sends activists, as well as members of the public who dare to oppose the authorities, to prison.

This month, we bring you the story of how we discovered the identity of a man from the town of Modrica who, despite a legal ban, went to fight for the Russian army as it destroys Ukrainian towns one by one and kills civilians.

In this April edition of TV Justice, we’re bringing you a story about how Bosnia and Herzegovina is once again going to disappoint war victims’ families who have been waiting for nearly three decades to see those responsible for crimes against them or their loved ones identified and punished.

We can reveal how a former chief of the Slovak counterintelligence service has found refuge in Bosnia and Herzegovina after serving two-thirds of his prison term. He is the third Slovak security official to have found our country a safe haven from the judicial authorities in their own EU state.

This month we mark the second anniversary of the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and our crew has a report from Kyiv about how the local population is struggling to keep morale high and about the consequences of enduring such a long period of terror.

In December, our crew visited the capital of Ukraine and some of the execution sites that have become notorious around the world after the crimes committed there by Russian forces. We’ll be talking about Ukrainians’ efforts to seek justice for war crimes, and about parallels with Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

We’ve been investigating how violence and inappropriate conduct by police officers are punished in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

For several weeks we infiltrated a pyramid scheme that ravaged the wallets of Bosnian and Herzegovinians who believed in a dream of easy money. We preserved disappearing evidence and uncovered previously unknown details about the mastermind behind this scheme.

Not far from Livno, the construction of a wind power plant is being completed, proudly announced as the first energy investment by Chinese concessionaires in Bosnia and Herzegovina. But the citizens on whose land it was built, with the blessing of the local authorities, claim that the meadows were turned into a construction site – […]

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Episode 163: Families of Srebrenica genocide victims call for mass graves to be marked

Episode 162: ‘Russian Law’ That Shook Georgia Has Echoes in Republika Srpska

Episode 161: Dario’s Journey – From Sportsman in Modrica to Russian volunteer in Ukraine

Do Bosnian War Crime Victims Face Judicial Disappointment Again in Two Years’ Time?

Episode 159: Slovak convicts exchange prison in the EU for villas with swimming pools in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Episode 158: After Two Years of War, Ukrainians Struggle to Defy Conflict Fatigue

Episode 157: In Ukraine as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fear for the Future and Hope for Justice

Episode 156: Four stories of police brutality

Episode 155: ‘Dream Jobs’ Become Nightmares for Bosnians Lured by Hungarian’s Online Pyramid Scam

Episode 154: The Chinese windmills in Livno are causing anger among citizens and fear for wild horses

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