Justice TV

In this special edition of TV Justice we bring you a testimony by Djulsa Velic, who survived the Srebrenica genocide. At the age of 49 she left Srebrenica in July 1995 alongside around 40,000 women, children and the elderly who were transferred in a convoy of buses and trucks from Potocari to Kladanj. During that summer more than 7,000 men and boys were killed in Srebrenica and its surroundings. Djulsa Velic’s story about surviving the genocide was recorded by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina and Srebrenica Memorial Center as part of “The Lives behind the Fields of Death” project a month before her death.

For seven years now, employees of state institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina been able to report corruption and be granted the status of whistleblowers or protected denouncers of corruption. But so far, only a few of them have received such a status. One of them decided to publicly denounce corruption through an investigation published by BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina. For more than a year, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina has monitored disciplinary action that was subsequently initiated against the whistleblower, although the law should have protected him. He was recently fired and disciplinary action is still being conducted against him. In this episode, you can see what whistleblowers have gone through after reporting corruption, why they are still not protected and how that can be changed.

A few weeks ago, a minor drew a Nazi swastika on an obituary notice for a Jewish man that had been affixed to a fence in Sarajevo. The incident came as a shock to residents of Sarajevo, but our research shows that for more than a decade, a movement has been openly promoting neo-Nazi ideology and anti-Semitism in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Federation entity.