Alen Simic was four when he was seriously wounded and his parents killed by shelling in the Bosnian city of Tuzla in 1993 - and as he told BIRN, the perpetrators have still not been brought to justice.
Interpol issued a ‘red notice’ for the arrest of Esed Abdagic, a former soldier who is charged with killing a prisoner of war in 1993 and is now believed to live in the United States.
The Bosnian authorities issued an arrest warrant for Serbian citizen Nenad Bubalo, a former military policeman who is accused of participating in the murders of at least five Bosniak civilians in 1992.
The Bosnian Justice Ministry issued a warrant on Monday for the arrest of Nenad Bubalo, the former deputy commander of the military police of the Bosnian Serb Army’s 15th Bihac Brigade, after he failed to appear for a plea hearing.
Hundreds of Turkish citizens have applied for asylum in the countries of the Balkans since a failed 2016 coup, seeking protection from a crackdown being waged well beyond the borders of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, BIRN has discovered.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s communications authority fined the Bosnian Serb public broadcaster 6,125 euros for airing a false report about the 1995 shelling of the town of Tuzla, in which 71 people were killed.
Bosnia’s wartime administration prosecuted some of its own fighters for killing civilians - but because it feared being accused of acting as heinously as its opponents, it didn’t charge them with war crimes.
The trial of Gavrilo Stevic, a Bosnian Serb charged with going to the conflict zone in Ukraine as part of a pro-Russian separatist militia unit, opened at the Bosnian state court.
Milan Bogdanovic, a former commander of Bosnian Serb police special units who was initially acquitted of capturing Bosniak men from Srebrenica who were then abused and killed in July 1995, has died before his final verdict.
A third of the war crimes indictments filed by the Bosnian state prosecution this year have been transferred to lower-level courts, sparking criticism of prosecutors for not focusing on more complex and important cases.