Thursday, 3 april 2025.
Srebrenica Mothers’ Last Wish: To See Ratko Mladic Convicted
Mothers of Srebrenica genocide victims are awaiting the final verdict in Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s trial next week - but as the years have passed, some mothers who...
Sarajevo’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Enduring Symbols of Wartime Tragedy
Bosko Brkic, a Bosnian Serb, and his Bosniak girlfriend, Admira Ismic, became symbols of the Bosnian war when they were shot dead in Sarajevo on May 19, 1993 - and...
28 Years On, Families Still Searching for Missing Bosnian Soldiers
Empty graves are waiting for three young Bosnian Army soldiers who disappeared during an attack by Bosnian Croat forces in Mostar in May 1993, but despite their families’ efforts, their...
Homage to Ratko Mladic Provokes Fear in Bosnian Town
A newly-painted mural of Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic and a gun attack on the local mosque have scared Bosniaks who returned to the town of Foca after fleeing...
Unregulated and Unlicensed, War Memorials Proliferate in Kosovo Towns
There are more than 1,600 memorials around Kosovo related to the 1998-99 war, but the authorities don’t have a proper register of what has been built, or any legal guidelines...
Italian Reporters Died Shielding Bosnian Child from Blast
Italian TV personnel Marco Luchetta, Alessandro Sasa Ota and Dario D’Angelo were killed by artillery fire in 1994 while reporting on the plight of children in the war-ravaged, ethnically-divided town...
Forgotten Victims: Bosnian Serb Refugee Convoy Ambushed While Fleeing
The latest in BIRN’s Forgotten Victims series examines how Croat troops attacked a convoy of Serbs trying to escape to safety in September 1995, killing 81 civilians, but no one...
Bosnian Bus Kidnapping Anniversary Commemorated by Victims’ Families
Sixteen Bosniak men and one woman were seized by paramilitaries from the Bosnian Serb ‘Avengers’ unit and then abused and killed at a notorious hotel in Visegrad during the war...
Forgotten Victims: ‘Hundreds of Prisoners’ Killed by Bosnian Serbs at School
In the latest in the Forgotten Victims series, BIRN asks why there have been no convictions for the brutal abuse and murders of prisoners detained by Bosnian Serb forces at...