Friday, 5 september 2025.
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...
‘I Only Know Dad from a Photo’: The Lost Fathers of Srebrenica
Over 200 children who were born just before or after the Srebrenica massacres in July 1995 had to grow up without ever knowing their fathers, who were killed by Bosnian...
Forgotten Victims: How Bosnian Villagers Liberated a Wartime Detention Camp
The latest in BIRN’s Forgotten Victims series examines how families were imprisoned, men killed and women raped at a Bosnian Serb-run detention camp near Zvornik in 1992 - until a...
As Srebrenica is Remembered, Zepa’s War Victims Feel Forgotten
War crimes in the village of Zepa just after the Srebrenica massacres in July 1995 were initially tried as genocide, but the charge was eventually dropped, and 25 years on,...