Saturday, 16 august 2025.
Bosnia Steps Up Missing Persons Identifications
The Institute for Missing Persons told BIRN on Monday that the process of identifying the remains of victims from Srebrenica and Zvornik is being stepped up ahead of mass funerals...
Bosnia War Victims Slate Call to Release Karadzic
Radovan Karadzic’s lawyer told the media on Thursday that Karadzic has requested temporary release to attend a commemoration ceremony of his brother’s death. Petronijevic added that the Serbian government had...
Massacre Victims Remembered in Tuzla, Bosnia
The families of the victims and various domestic and international delegations on Wednesday laid wreaths and flowers in the Bosnian town’s downtown area, Kapija, in memory of those who were...
Bosnia Fines Football Clubs for Nationalist Chants
The Bosnian Football Federation’s disciplinary commission told BIRN that clubs have been punished during the recently-concluded 2015-16 season with fines totalling around 140,000 euros for offences including nationalist, racist and...
Serbia Acquits 10 of Hiding Ratko Mladic
Ivana Ramic, the spokesperson for the First Basic Court in Belgrade, told BIRN that the 10 defendants had been cleared on Tuesday because “the statute of limitations regarding the criminal...
Sarajevo Museum to Preserve Wartime Childhood Memories
The War Childhood Museum (Muzej Ratnog Djetinjstva) doesn’t yet have a permanent venue in Sarajevo but is showing some of the items it has collected so far at a temporary...
Bosnian Witnesses Complain of Threats to Change Testimony
Victims’ associations from all three major ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina have told BIRN that their members have received threats and offers of money in attempts to get them...
Wealthy Arabs Buy Slice of ‘Heaven’ in Bosnia
As the summer tourist season edges closer, Bosnia and Herzegovina is preparing for a fresh arrival of Arab tourists who have fallen in love with the country, especially with the...
Former Bosnian Presidency Member’s Trial Hears Murder Claims
The first prosecution witness at the war crimes trial of Paravac and three others at the state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday testified that civilians were murdered during an attack...
Mladic Witness Contests Mass Grave Exhumation Report
Testifying on behalf of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, an expert witness questioned whether bodies exhumed from a mass grave at the Tomasica mine near Prijedor were executed...
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