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The start of the high-profile trial of Bosnian Serb Army Drina Corps commander Milenko Zivanovic, already the focus of controversy, was postponed after Bosnian prosecutors offered to transfer the case to Serbia instead of pursuing their own trial.

Milenko Zivanovic, wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, was indicted in both Bosnia and Serbia, almost simultaneously, for similar crimes in Srebrenica in 1995, raising questions about the motives behind the charges.

Young people growing up in the multi-ethnic Brcko District in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina say that although they cannot remember the 1992-95 war, its bitter divisions still cast a shadow over their lives.

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The trial for the killings of 20 passengers seized from a train in Bosnia in 1993 was delayed again as the court ruled that a former Bosnian Serb soldier must now be tried separately because of illness.

Anti-feminism and misogyny are common threads linking far-right individuals and organisations. They are also tools of recruitment.

A Belgrade court sentenced Husein Mujanovic to ten years in prison after a retrial for assaulting Serb prisoners at a Bosnian Army-run military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during wartime.

Popular Bosnian vocalist Adi Mulahalilovic, who co-wrote Bosnia’s 1994 Eurovision entry, said that as a survivor of the siege of Sarajevo, he felt obliged to join the multinational Europe for Ukraine music project.

Incidents of incitement to ethnic hatred are not uncommon in Serbia. So why are they not being punished?

The wartime commander of the Drina Corps, Milenko Zivanovic, will go on trial next month in Serbia for forcing Bosniak civilians out of Srebrenica during the Bosnian Serb Army’s offensive in July 1995.