9. July 2018.
Ahead of the 23rd anniversary of the Srebrenica massacres, questions have been raised about whether the verdicts so far are logical, because some commanders have been convicted of less serious crimes than their subordinates.
Analysis
7. July 2018.
The Hague Tribunal and domestic courts have sentenced 45 people to 699 years in prison - plus three life sentences - for genocide, crimes against humanity and other offences against Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.
The past 12 months have seen another landmark verdict convicting a senior Bosnian Serb figure of involvement in the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II - Ratko Mladic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Main Headquarters, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in November.
6. July 2018.
At least nine Serbs suspected of genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica have fled Bosnia to enjoy refuge from prosecution in Serbia, where they remain free despite alleged involvement in the massacres of thousands of Bosniaks.
5. July 2018.
A baby and a woman in her nineties were the youngest and oldest victims of Srebrenica to be buried so far, said Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute as the 23rd anniversary of the mass killings approaches.
13. June 2018.
Medical workers who served with UN peacekeeping troops in Bosnia recalled painful memories of war and joy at seeing peace as they returned to join a Canadian veterans’ bike ride through the country.
7. June 2018.
Investigators from Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute who search for the remains of war victims have suffered injuries and contracted physical and mental illnesses while conducting exhumations in contaminated and dangerous terrains.
25. May 2018.
The massacre of 71 young people in Tuzla on May 25, 1995 was one of the most deadly crimes against civilians of the Bosnian war - but the only person to be convicted is still free.
23. April 2018.
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic is starting his appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes at the UN court in The Hague, claiming his trial was flawed. Appeals in Radovan Karadzic’s case are being heard by the UN’s Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals on Monday and Tuesday, with the former […]
10. April 2018.
Judges handing down this week’s second-instance verdict in the trial of Vojislav Seselj have to decide whether the Serbian Radical Party leader’s nationalist speeches inspired Serb paramilitaries to commit crimes. The prosecution in the case against Vojislav Seselj has asked the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in its verdict on Wednesday to quash the first-instance […]
9. April 2018.
Sarajevo-born Vojislav Seselj – who was a vociferous Communist until he embraced a nationalist ‘Greater Serbia’ ideology and went to war – faces judgment in The Hague this week for alleged crimes against humanity. At the beginning of the 1980s, none of Vojislav Seselj’s acquaintances would have guessed that the nationalist fanatic who dreamed of […]
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