People convicted of committing crimes during the Bosnian war spend months at liberty because of procedural delays before going to prison - a situation which has angered victims’ groups.
Twenty-two years after the Srebrenica massacres, direct perpetrators of mass killings of Bosniaks at several lesser-known execution sites have still not been charged or put on trial.
Twelve Bosnian Serbs convicted of genocide have served their sentences and been released - some have returned to live in places where the massacres happened, while others continue to deny that Srebrenica was genocide.
Thousands of Bosniak men and boys were killed in the woods around Srebrenica in 1995 as they tried to flee Serb forces – but some survived by walking for days, dodging ambushes and minefields. Abdusamed Djozic, a former member of the Bosnian Army’s 28th Division, was one of a few thousand Bosniak civilians and soldiers […]
In the second of two reports on the education system in Bosnia, where children are taught differently according to ethnicity, experts argue that segregated schooling is a way of keeping people divided. Three different curriculums – Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian – are taught in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s schools in parallel. There are no joint textbooks, […]
Twenty-four years have passed without any prosecutions for the ambush of the ‘Tuzla Convoy of Salvation’, when seven Bosniak truck drivers and several passengers were killed by Croat forces.
A year and a half after the adoption of the Justice Sector Reform Strategy, state institutions are just beginning to implement some of the steps, and international monitors doubt that the justice ministry can meet its deadlines.
Excluded from the mainstream media, whose content is more heavily policed, the purveyors of extreme ideologies are spreading their messages of fear and hatred on social networks.
Because of a lack of resources, Bosnians convicted of fighting for radical Islamist groups abroad are not helped to ‘deradicalise’ in jail or to reintegrate into society after their release.
Despite the fact that some cases involve the organised exploitation of minors, the Bosnian authorities have failed to find a workable solution to the widespread problem of children begging on the streets.