Revelations that a government agency in Republika Srpska has agreed to open a ‘media school’ with an EU-sanctioned Russian propaganda tool shows Moscow is upping its information warfare in the Balkans.
This month marks the 31st anniversary of one of the largest mass crimes
against civilians in the village of Stupni Do, near Vares. Former senior officials of [unrecognised wartime statelet] Herzeg-Bosnia and the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, were prosecuted in The Hague for the crime, but only three former HVO members were convicted in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This month, we’ll be explaining Milorad Dodik’s hopeful efforts to rid himself of American sanctions and extend his political life, but also his promises that Republika Srpska will secede.
Two years have passed since the Republika Srpska authorities officially announced the construction of a highway from Modrica to Brcko in the near future.
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.