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The UN court in The Hague has rejected requests for early release from three war crimes convicts because they have not shown signs that they have been rehabilitated – a move applauded by Bosnian war victims’ organisation. Bosnian war victims’ representatives have welcomed decisions by Carmel Agius, president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals […]

Despite strong evidence that emerged in their superiors’ trials, officers who led brigades of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Sarajevo-Romanija Corps as it targeted Sarajevo with shells and sniper fire have never been indicted.

Over 120 children are estimated to have been killed during the 1992-95 war in the Bosnian town of Gorazde, where attacks continued even after the area was declared a ‘safe zone’ by the United Nations. Ismail Culov never got to meet his brother Mirsad. Mirsad died before Ismail was born, on May 14, 1992, when […]

Many people in Bosnia and Herzegovina are self-isolating at home to protect themselves from the coronavirus, but migrants and refugees living in squatted buildings and tent camps are more vulnerable to infection because they can’t take the same precautions.

A year after Radovan Karadzic was convicted of genocide and other wartime crimes, no one who helped the former Bosnian Serb political leader to evade capture for 12 years has been convicted in Bosnia and Herzegovina or Serbia. Since the UN court in The Hague convicted former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic on March 20, […]

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Two Kosovo Serbs were recently charged with raping women during the war in 1999 – but their indictments highlighted how Kosovo’s courts have not managed to convict anyone of wartime sexual violence in two decades. When Zoran Vukotic, a former Serbian police officer in Kosovo, was charged with earlier this month with raping a 16-year-old […]

Ahead of Ratko Mladic’s appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes, Srebrenica victims’ relatives are becoming anxious about the outcome after judges were replaced for alleged bias against the Bosnian Serb commander. Mirsada Malagic is one of the key witnesses of the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995. Six members of her family […]

In the second report in BIRN’s Forgotten Victims series about the Bosnian war, relatives of elderly Croats killed in the village of Susanj in 1993 demand to know why the investigation into the crime has not resulted in any indictments.

Bosnia’s Strategy for Prevention and Combatting Terrorism, which expires this year, has not received nearly enough resources to succeed – and clear terrorism prevention systems have yet to be set up in all local communities, analysis by BIRN shows.

In the first of BIRN Bosnia’s Forgotten Victims series, Bosniaks who survived the execution of prisoners on a bridge near Doboj in 1992 express outrage that no one has yet been convicted of the shootings.

Analysis

Hague Court Denies Early Release to ‘Unrehabilitated’ Convicts

Sarajevo Siege: Brigade Chiefs’ Role in Terrorising City Ignored

Bosnia’s Forgotten Victims: The Lost Children of Gorazde

Migrants in Bosnia ‘More Vulnerable to Infection’ Despite Lockdown

No Convictions for Radovan Karadzic’s ‘Helpers in Hiding’

Kosovo War Rape Survivors Still Waiting for First Convictions

Ratko Mladic’s Appeal Causes Anxiety for Bosnian War Survivors

‘The Elderly Were Liquidated’: An Unprosecuted Bosnian Village Atrocity

Prevention Remains Biggest Challenge to Bosnia’s Anti-Terrorism Strategy

Forgotten Victims: The Story of Bosnia’s Iron Bridge Executions

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