Investigative journalism can bring about change and improve people’s lives, said Marty Kaiser and Blake Morrison, two senior editors who lectured at this year’s BIRN Summer School in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A Bosnian Serb referendum challenging the authority of the country’s Constitutional Court represents “direct political pressure” aimed at undermining the state-level institution, its president told BIRN.
Ibrahim Delic, who fought alongside mujahideen troops in the Bosnian war and is now on trial for taking part in the Syrian conflict, says anger over the suffering in the Middle East made him travel there.
In a defiant interview before his trial verdict, wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic insists that ‘no reasonable court’ would convict him of genocide and war crimes, despite the evidence against him.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic evaded capture for over a decade because international forces and the Serbian authorities were unwilling and then unable to arrest him, says British author Julian Borger.
Ron Haviv, an American photographer who documented some of the most brutal murders of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, believes that life in this country is still intolerable and disappointing.
Hague prosecutor says the Bosnian prosecution can expect a ‘very critical’ report if it misses a deadline on war-crime cases transferred to Bosnia from The Hague.
State prosecutors say lawyer Muhidin Kapo has been threatened with murder, due to his forthcoming testimony in a war crimes trial. Kapo has requested that the case be turned over to the Bosnian state court, because of bad experiences hes had with the court of Eastern Sarajevo.
It remains to be seen whether judicial proceedings for war crimes and genocide will deter others from committing atrocities in the future, former Hague Tribunal prosecutor Geoffrey Nice told BIRN.
The Hague Tribunal introduced a new way of understanding genocide based on intent rather than the amount of victims, British historian Marko Attila Hoare told BIRN.