Monday, 21 april 2025.
Testifying Against Karadzic: The Witnesses’ Stories
As Radovan Karadzic’s final verdict approaches, witnesses who testified against the former Bosnian Serb political leader recall how they felt when they spoke about his alleged crimes to his face...
Karadzic Verdict: Mastermind of Violence or Victim of Injustice?
Prosecutors want the UN court to give former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic a life sentence for genocide and other crimes this week - but his defence insists the trial...
Mystery Persists Over Fugitive Karadzic’s Years in Hiding
As Radovan Karadzic’s final verdict approaches next week, many of the 12 years he spent evading arrest remain shrouded in secrets that the Serbian and Bosnian authorities seem reluctant to...
Bosnian Branch of ‘Putin’s Angels’ Enjoys Political Backing
Like the original Night Wolves in Russia, a Bosnian Serb branch of the motorcycle gang enjoys close ties to the political elite.
Radovan Karadzic: Psychiatrist-Poet Who Led Bosnian Serbs to War
Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serbs’ wartime president, spent years on the run before he was caught and tried, and could now be jailed for the rest of his life when...
Sarajevo Siege: How Perpetrators of Deadly Attacks Remain Unprosecuted
Twenty-seven years since the siege of Sarajevo began, a handful of commanders have been tried, but Bosnian prosecutors have not yet filed any indictments against direct perpetrators of sniping and...
Investigators File Voting Fraud Charges in Bosnia
Bosnia's state Investigation agency has accused nine people of committing election fraud in the general elections in October 2018 in the Brcko area, BIRN Bosnia can reveal.
Bosnia’s Updated War Crimes Strategy Languishes in Limbo
A year after Bosnia and Herzegovina’s revised draft strategy for war crimes processing was completed, it has not even been considered by the Council of Ministers, raising questions about when...
Bosnian Serbs’ War Commissions: Fact-Seeking or Truth-Distorting?
Two new commissions set up by Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity to examine wartime crimes in Srebrenica and Sarajevo have been accused of seeking to distort the truth to whitewash...