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.
Interview
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.
24. February 2020.
Renowned US photographer Ron Haviv returns to Bosnia with an exhibition dedicated to prisoners of war.
6. December 2019.
Bosnia’s chief state prosecutor Gordana Tadic defended the small number of war-crime indictments issued this year, insisting that her office’s work is going to plan.
6. September 2019.
The pace of war crimes prosecutions is too slow, with several thousand suspects still unindicted, and the conviction rate is too low, the outgoing chief of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bruce Berton, told BIRN.
9. July 2019.
Former Bosnian Serb special police brigade commander Goran Saric, who was acquitted of involvement in the Srebrenica genocide, said that the killings of Bosniaks in July 1995 happened, but questioned whether the massacres were planned in advance.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.