Friday, 22 august 2025.
UN Court Stops Hague Detainees Making Online Video Calls
The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has decided to discontinue a pilot project that enabled the Hague war crimes court’s detainees to make and receive video calls via the internet,...
Bosnian Croat War Crimes Defendant Dies Before Verdict
The Bosnian state court told BIRN on Thursday that it had received a death certificate for Ivica Markovic, who passed away at the beginning of July. “As it has been...
Bosnian Ministers Fail to Adopt National War Crimes Strategy
Denis Zvizdic, chairman of the Council of Ministers, said that the issue was so-called ‘Category A’ cases which were transferred, before the investigations were finished, by Hague Tribunal prosecutors to...
Bosnian Serb Schoolbooks to Teach Same War History as Serbia
Republika Srpska is ready to introduce new history textbooks for high school pupils which will include the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as part of an ongoing project to...
Foul Play: Serbia’s Football Hooligans Get Down to Business
Serbia’s football thugs are flexing their muscles. Slobodan Vukic was drinking whiskey at the Tilt nightclub on Belgrade’s Sava riverfront when drunkenness turned to disaster. After knocking over some glasses...
Croatia Key to Ukrainian Far-Right’s International Ambitions
A far-right militant movement in Ukraine is forging ties with like-minded politicians and war veterans in European Union member Croatia, a BIRN investigation reveals. Chain-smoking in a Zagreb cafe, 43-year-old...
Bosnia Exhumes Six War Victims from Mass Grave
The Bosnian prosecutor’s office said on Friday that the exhumation of the grave at Hrtar Grad near Visegrad in the east of the country was now complete and that the...
Netherlands ‘10% Responsible’ for Srebrenica
The Dutch Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Netherlands was partially liable for the deaths of around 350 Bosniak men who were handed over to Bosnian Serb Army troops...
How Russian Fighters Train Serb Teens at ‘Military-Patriotic’ Camps
In 2018, Jovan, a Serb teenager from Prijedor in Bosnia and Herzegovina, attended a so-called ‘military-patriotic’ camp for youngsters in the mountainous Zlatibor area of Serbia. The camp was co-organised...
Serbian Court Cuts Female War Criminal’s Prison Sentence
Belgrade Appeals Court has reduced the sentence handed down to Ranka Tomic, a former captain of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Petrovac Women’s Front, from five to three years in prison....
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