Wednesday, 2 april 2025.
‘Living Yugoslavia’: Past Identity Becomes Present Political Statement
To many who trace their roots to socialist Yugoslavia, ‘Yugo-nostalgia’ isn’t just about how they or their families once lived, but about the life they want to live now.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Grabovica Massacre: The Soldiers Who Couldn’t Forget
Two soldiers were on opposing sides when 33 Bosnian Croats were massacred by Bosnian Army troops 27 years ago - but now they are both working to ensure that the...
Playground Shelled, Eight Bosnian Children Killed, and No One Prosecuted
The latest report in BIRN’s Forgotten Victims series examines how no one has ever been brought to justice for a mortar attack on a playground in Vitez during the Bosnian...
Bosnia’s LGBT Activists Vow to Fight on Despite Cancelled March
The pandemic may have forced Pride organisers to cancel their planned march this year in Sarajevo, but activists say they will compensate for this loss with a host of other...
No Justice for Elderly Serbs Executed in Croatian Villages
The Croatian fighters who killed elderly Serbs who didn’t flee their villages when the army’s Operation Storm crushed Serb rebel forces in 1995 have never been convicted - and officials...
Forgotten Victims: Serbs Targeted in Bosnia-Croatia Border Village Killings
Only one person has ever been convicted of killing Serb civilians in the village of Sijekovac in March 1992 - one of the first crimes of the Bosnian war -...
Next Generation: Enemies Inherited and the Bosnians Trying to Resist
In Bosnia, former foes are trying to stop their own past from poisoning the future.
Dreaming of a Hug: Families Still Wait for News of Srebrenica’s Missing
The 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacres is a particularly distressing time for people whose loved ones disappeared in July 1995 but whose remains have not yet been found, identified...
Samir Played Guitar: The Life and Death of Srebrenica’s ‘Bowie’
Samir Mehic, a Bosnian guitarist nicknamed Bowie after his musical hero, was the rock’n’roll bard of wartime Srebrenica, but was killed in the July 1995 massacres alongside thousands of other...