More than 50 Serbs, including three young children, were killed in an attack by the Bosnian Army on the village of Josanica near Foca in December 1992, but no one has yet been brought to justice for the crime.
Fewer of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s wartime missing persons are being found because witnesses who know about undiscovered mass graves are still unwilling to come forward and relatives are dying without learning the fate of their loved ones.
A far-right militant movement in Ukraine is forging ties with like-minded politicians and war veterans in European Union member Croatia, a BIRN investigation reveals. Chain-smoking in a Zagreb cafe, 43-year-old Denis Seler would hardly stand out were it not for the word AZOV emblazoned in Cyrillic on the front of his grey sweater. Seler is […]
At youth training camps in Serbia and Russia, teenagers are being taught pro-Russian ‘patriotic’ values and given military instruction by right-wing extremists with links to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Three years after a failed coup in Turkey, Bosnia is still under pressure from its close ally to hand over Turks it accuses of having ties to the alleged mastermind of the attempted putsch.
Srebrenica was under siege for three years before it fell to Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, but people in the enclave struggled to live as normally as possible despite food, water and power shortages.
The remains of some 1,000 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacres are believed to still lie in hidden graves after their bodies were reburied again and again in attempts to conceal the killings.
Hasan Hasanovic remembers how he and his brothers began a perilous trek from Srebrenica to escape Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 - but one brother was shot dead and the other injured, leaving him to try to carry his wounded sibling to safety.
Faced with a growing bottleneck in its northwest, Bosnia has moved hundreds of migrants and refugees to an isolated forest camp despite the threat from landmines, fire and sickness.