Friday, 3 april 2026.
‘We Were Just Like Them’ – in Bosnia, Past Meets Present
Syrian refugees are arriving in ever greater numbers in Bosnia.
BIRN BiH Participates in Dealing with the Past Programme at the Sarajevo Film Festival
A story by the Balkans Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, about a boy who was abandoned after his pregnant mother had survived the Srebrenica genocide is...
Facing the Past from the Children’s Perspective at the Sarajevo Film Festival
The “Never Leave me” movie about refugee life of Syrian children is one of a few films about the war and its consequences that will be screened at this year’s...
Bosnians Commemorate Victims of Notorious Omarska Camp
Former detainees and relatives of prisoners who were killed at the Bosnian Serb-run Omarska detention facility in Prijedor marked the 26th anniversary of the closure of the notorious wartime camp.
UN Court Rejects Mladic’s Call to Prosecute Medics
The UN court in The Hague rejected a call from Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic’s defence to reconsider a previous decision to refuse to launch proceedings against medics at...
Serbia Arrests Bosnian Ex-Soldier for Alleged War Crimes
Serbian police arrested Husein Mujanovic, a former soldier in the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for alleged war crimes against Serbs during the 1990s conflict.
Bosnian Prosecution Stalls on Yugoslav Troop Death Appeals
The Bosnian state prosecution has failed for six years to decide on appeals against a decision to stop an investigation into 14 people suspected of involvement in the killings of...
Srebrenica Eyewitness Tells Belgrade Court about Executions
A protected witness told the court at the landmark trial in Belgrade for the Srebrenica killings how he witnessed the mass shooting of Bosniak men in a hangar in the...
Serbia Urged to Stop Selling Arms to Cameroon
After a video of executions in Cameroon featured what seemed to be soldiers using Serbian-made arms, Amnesty International has asked Serbia to stop exporting weapons to the country.
Bosnia Charges Ex-Policemen with Attacks on Bosniaks, Croats
Three former members of the police force in the town of Teslic in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity were charged with involvement in the wartime persecution of dozens of Bosniaks...
Wartime Rape in Bosnia: A Daughter’s Search for Truth
Born in wartime Sarajevo to a mother who had been raped in a detention camp, then brought up by foster parents in Britain, Lejla Damon returned to Bosnia to seek...