The remains of 50 victims of the July 1995 massacres of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces, including three minors, will be buried at next week’s 27th anniversary commemoration of the genocide.
Public denials of the Srebrenica genocide have decreased significantly in the year since a ban was imposed on denying war crimes and glorifying their perpetrators, although prosecutors have yet to bring anyone to court.
Two small but vocal groups of right-wing Bosnian Serb nationalists exerted pressure that is believed to have caused the authorities in the city of Prijedor to ban this year’s White Armband Day march to commemorate war victims.
On the anniversary of the Srebrenica massacres, a few kilometres away from the annual commemoration, a nationalist group will screen a film praising Bosnian Serb forces and genocide convict Ratko Mladic for ‘liberating’ the enclave.
PM Boris Johnson on Thursday said Britain will send military specialists to Bosnia and Herzegovina to reinforce the NATO mission there and reinforce stability and security in the country.
The Hague-based court denied a request for early release from Bosnian Serb general Radivoje Miletic, who is serving an 18-year sentence for committing crimes against humanity in Srebrenica in 1995.
Relatives of 121 Bosniaks who were killed in June 1992 in the Kalinovik area marked the 30th anniversary by walking between the sites where their loved ones died.
The UN war crimes court in The Hague rejected an appeal for early release from prison made by Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader Milan Lukic, who is serving a life sentence for committing crimes against humanity.
An extreme nationalist organisation from Turkey set up a Bosnian branch whose leader helped President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime target opponents from the so-called Gulenist movement for extradition, BIRN has found.
The UN court will rule in about a year’s time on Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic’s appeal against their conviction for aiding and abetting crimes committed by a Serbian State Security Service special unit during the Bosnian war.