Ahead of the former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s war crimes verdict this week, BIRN has compiled all its reports on the landmark case into a free, downloadable e-book....
“It is difficult for victims, and I understand that,” says Rob Miller, a film-maker who has just wrapped up his project documenting the trial of Ratko Mladic. The film, entitled...
The Bosnian state prosecution announced on Tuesday that it is probing reports that members of the Ravna Gora Movement – widely known as the Chetniks – stirred up religious and...
Prosecutors have been urged to launch a probe after members of the Ravna Gora Movement – widely known as the Chetniks – held a gathering in the eastern Bosnian town...
“In his capacity as member of the headquarters of the Territorial Defence in Srpsko Gorazde, Mutlak committed the rape and sexual abuse of a Bosniak woman, using force and death...
The head of the Association of Families of Detained and Missing Persons from Zvornik Municipality, Ahmet Grahic, expressed dissatisfaction with the reduced sentences given to the three Serb ex-paramilitaries, but...
Tintor’s defense told BIRN that the Bosnian state prosecutor’s appeal had been rejected, while the defense appeal had been partially upheld by the second instance verdict. In August 2018, the...
Seselj came to express support for eight former members of a police special brigade from Bosnia’s Serb-led entity Republika Srpska, who are indicted for committing a war crime against civilians...
“The defendant has also been charged with having personally participated, while armed with an automatic rifle, in the forced resettlement of the Bosniak civilian population from the village of Donje...
“The defendant has also been charged with having participated, along with other persons, in the rape and sexual abuse of Bosniak women and girls, and with having personally committed the...