BIRN’s War Movie Presented at Bosnia’s Prestigious Film Festival
Documentary made by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, looking into some of the most brutal crimes of the Kosovo war, had its international premiere at this year’s Sarajevo Film...
BIRNs War Movie Premieres at Sarajevo Film Festival
BIRNs film The Unidentified, which names the Serbian officers who ordered attacks on Kosovo villages around the town of Pec/Peja in 1999 and those involved in the cover-up operation to...
Prosecutor disputes illegal search claim in Avdovic trial
A Bosnian prosecutor introduced evidence in an effort to prove that the search of war crimes defendant Ramiz Avdovic’s apartment, in 2011, was legal. Prosecutor Dzevad Muratbegovic provided requests and...
State Prosecution Presents Photos of Karacici Crime Scene
Radomir Markovic, Mile Kusic, Dragan Bozovic, Sasa Perkovic, Radomir Gluhovic, Pero Radovic, Ilija Vukasinovic and Milos Vukasinovic have been charged with the murder of approximately 20 Bosniak civilians in the...
Bosnian Serb Army Communications Could Have Been Intercepted, Argues Prosecutor at Mladic Trial
Prosecutors at the Ratko Mladic trial argued that the Bosnian Army could intercept communications conducted by the Main Headquarters of the Bosnian Serb Army. By the end of his testimony,...
State Prosecution Witness Describes Reports of Fire in Bileca Prison
Miroslav Duka, the former Bileca police commander, Goran Vujovic, the former chief of the Bileca public safety station, and Zeljko Ilic, a former police officer, have been charged with war...
Witness at Stanarevic Trial Describes Assault and Detention in Ripac
The state prosecution has charged Stanarevic, a former military police officer with the 15th Bihacka Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, with participating in the murder of 11 prisoners from...
Open Communications Intercepted
Mile Dosenovic, a military communications expert and former Bosnian Serb colonel, testified in Ratko Mladic’s defense at the Hague. Dosenovic told the trial chamber that the Bosnian Serb Army’s communications...
Hearing on Sanski Most War Crimes Held in Closed Session
The state prosecution has charged Goran Mrdja, Milorad Mrdja, Ranko Mrdja and Mile Kokot, all former members of the Sixth Sanska Infantry Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, with participating...
Wives of Convicted Wartime Rapists Maintain their Innocence
Three wives of men found guilty of wartime rape claim their lives have been turned upside down since their husbands’ convictions. They’ve told BIRN that they believe their spouses are...