8. April 2022.
A special international tribunal would be able to prosecute senior officials for the crime of aggression during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and bring justice for victims, says international law professor Andrew Clapham.
Interview
13. January 2022.
Photographer Fabrice Dekoninck visited sites of massacres, torture, imprisonment and mass burials as part of his project to visually document people’s memories of suffering during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
4. January 2022.
Novelist Lejla Kalamujic, whose writing has been shaped by her experience of siege and exile in the violent 1990s, says that the trauma suffered by Bosnian society during the war years still needs to be properly addressed.
17. December 2021.
Investigators in Nevesinje, a city in the country’s Herzegovina region, are still 20 children who disappeared during the 1992-95 war, the youngest of whom was just seven days old and had no name.
15. September 2021.
The Dutch advisor to Bosnia’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, HJPC, says the proceedings conducted against the state court president and chief prosecutor highlight the system’s reluctance to impose serious penalties.
23. July 2021.
Robert McNeil was one of the first international experts deployed to gather evidence by examining the bodies of victims of the Srebrenica massacres, and memories of what he saw have haunted him ever since.
30. September 2020.
Serif Turgut, one of the few female Turkish reporters who covered the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, says that witnessing the conflict and its tragedies shaped her life and her career forever.
10. August 2020.
The Western Balkans Director at the German Federal Foreign Office says the region will be high on the agenda during Berlin’s EU Council Presidency – but countries seeking integration must do their part.
14. April 2020.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court is to rule on whether banning minors and people over 65 from leaving their homes because of the coronavirus pandemic breaches their civic rights.
24. March 2020.
Gavrilo Stevic, the first person charged in Bosnia and Herzegovina with fighting in Ukraine, told BIRN after his acquittal why he went to the country’s war-ravaged east and how a Chetnik ‘duke’ tried to convince him to take up arms.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.