2. June 2022.
The government in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Bosniak- and Croat-dominated Federation entity voted for a draft law that will provide more wide-ranging welfare benefits to civilian victims of the 1992-95 war.
Monitor
2. June 2022.
At an exhumation in the village of Medjine in the Mostar area, investigators have discovered the remains of 15 people who are believed to have died during the war in 1994.
2. June 2022.
BIRN has awarded grants to 13 journalists, historians, artists and activists for projects exploring the archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and domestic courts in ex-Yugoslav countries that dealt with war crimes cases.
1. June 2022.
A ban on a march commemorating victims of wartime persecution by Bosnian Serb forces in the city of Prijedor, which police say was imposed for security reasons, has been criticised as a violation of civil rights.
31. May 2022.
After police refused to permit a march to mark White Ribbon Day, the anniversary of the start of ethnic persecution in the Prijedor area in 1992, people gathered in a city square to commemorate the victims.
24. May 2022.
The Basic Court in Brcko told BIRN it allowed Srdjan Letic, leader of the Sveti Georgije Loncari organization, a man with multiple convictions, to commute his prison sentence for a 9,000 euro fine.
20. May 2022.
BIRN is making its database of established facts about the war available to the Memorial Fund for used in schools to counter disinformation and war crimes denial.
19. May 2022.
Bosnian Serb ex-policeman Radomir Stojnic, who was on trial for involvement in the mass killings of Bosniaks in the village of Zecovi near Prijedor in 1992, became the second defendant to die during the long-running case.
17. May 2022.
Former Bosnian Serb Army military policemen Zoran Neskovic, Panto Pantovic, Slavisa Djeric, Nenad Ujic and Pero Despot were charged with beating, robbing and sexually abusing prisoners in Rogatica in 1995.
9. May 2022.
‘Dangerous Names’, a play about the 1995 genocide whose leading roles are played by a Srebrenica survivor and a former Dutch peacekeeping soldier, was given its Bosnian premiere in Sarajevo.
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