Tuesday, 27 may 2025.
Sarajevo Belatedly Honours Sportsman Who Sacrificed Life for Neighbour
Campaigners for renaming a sports hall after handball player Goran Cengic – who perished trying to save his elderly neighbour in the war – are finally celebrating victory.
Bosnian Families Hope Grave Discovery Will End Search for Bodies
Relatives of people who went missing in the Kalinovik are during the Bosnian war hope that the exhumation of a previously-unknown mass grave will finally reveal where their loved ones...
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...