‘They send people to their deaths,’ Bosnian Selver Hrustic says of the Russian army in an interview from his prison cell in Ukraine.
On the anniversary of the 1993 Ahmici massacre in central Bosnia, former Hague Tribunal investigator Thomas Obruca tells BIRN he hopes his book – which centres on a 13-year-old survivor...
Although going to Paris meant escaping the everyday life of wartime, Inna Pedan, a Ukrainian artist, art designer and professor at the Kharkov State Academy of Design and Art, began...
Shortly after the Russians invaded Ukraine in February 2022, art teacher Olena Tsyhipa’s husband Serhiy, aged 63, was arrested by soldiers. She has not seen him since. Olena has lived...
The system of detention camps set up by Bosnian Serb forces during the war in 1992 was intended to torment and humiliate entire communities, genocide scholar Hikmet Karcic argues in...
The dehumanizing political discourse in Bosnia increases the fear of a potential repetition of the crimes of the 1990s, the UN General Secretary’s special advisor on the prevention of genocide,...
Accepting that genocide was committed against Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 is necessary if there is to be meaningful post-war reconciliation, the new head of the UN court in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...