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Despite the deadline set in the revised state strategy, war crime cases will not be completed by the end of 2023, judicial officials told BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina – a blow to victims’ families’ hopes that justice will be achieved.

Experts and officials fear Russia could exploit Bosnia and Herzegovina’s weaknesses to influence this October’s election

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The UN, EU, OSCE and others have told Bosnia it must make the appointment of the three rights ombudsmen more open to the public and CSOs – or face penalties.

Although the European Union has placed the Russian oil company under sanctions, Motorways of the Federation, a public company, is running a campaign encouraging driver to fill their vehicles at its petrol stations.

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Public denials of the Srebrenica genocide have decreased significantly in the year since a ban was imposed on denying war crimes and glorifying their perpetrators, although prosecutors have yet to bring anyone to court.

Two small but vocal groups of right-wing Bosnian Serb nationalists exerted pressure that is believed to have caused the authorities in the city of Prijedor to ban this year’s White Armband Day march to commemorate war victims.

Bosnian war survivors and international organisations criticised a decision by Sarajevo’s Novi Grad municipality to name a street after general Mehmed Alagic, who died before the end of his trial at the Hague Tribunal.

A ban on a march commemorating victims of wartime persecution by Bosnian Serb forces in the city of Prijedor, which police say was imposed for security reasons, has been criticised as a violation of civil rights.

Moscow is busy selling its own version of the war in Ukraine to Bosnian citizens – cynically using analogies with the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica to justify its invasion and destabilize Bosnia at the same time.

Well-known suspects including a former Bosnian presidency member, two Bosnian Army generals and a police chief make the Dobrovoljacka case one of the most high-profile in recent years – but what is known about the charges so far?

Analysis

Bosnia to Miss Deadline for Resolving War Crime Cases Again

Fears grow of Russian meddling in Bosnian election

Bosnia Warned by UN Over ‘Non-Transparent’ Ombudsmen Selection Process

Bosnian Entity Road Company Ignores Sanctions, Promotes Gazprom Petrol Stations

Bosnia’s Genocide Denial Ban Curbs Violations, But No Prosecutions Yet

How Right-Wingers Thwarted a War Crime Commemoration in Bosnia

Street Named After Bosnian War Crime Defendant Angers Survivors

Police Ban on Bosnian War Victims’ Memorial March Condemned

Russia Targets Bosnia With Disinformation About Ukrainian War

High-Level Suspects Charged, But Bosnia’s Dobrovoljacka Case Has Troubled History

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