21. November 2024.
Increasing numbers of Ukrainians are learning demining techniques at a training school in Kosovo – hoping to make a difference back in their war-ravaged home country, which has been massively contaminated by explosive devices.
Monitor
15. November 2024.
Speakers in Sarajevo say vital opportunity to put subject back into public discourse created by EU accession talks must not be lost.
12. November 2024.
Thirty years have passed since Bosnian Army troops detained and assaulted Croat and Serb prisoners in a music school basement in Zenica. In the Hague Tribunal archives, BIRN found names of suspected perpetrators who never stood trial.
12. November 2024.
Former inmates of the notorious Heliodrom camp still ask why warden Stanko Bozic – and others who allowed prisoners to be beaten and taken from the camp for forced labour – never faced court.
11. November 2024.
Two Ukrainians who were held prisoner by Russia are using the pain they endured to motivate them to help other survivors of wartime sexual violence. They are also asking the Ukrainian authorities to make sexual violence in conflict a legal offence and recognise the legal status of survivors.
6. November 2024.
When Russian forces occupied the area where 13-year-old Sophia was living, the school system was transformed to indoctrinate Ukrainian pupils into believing they are patriotic Russians – and to stifle any dissenting views.
5. November 2024.
Revelations that a government agency in Republika Srpska has agreed to open a ‘media school’ with an EU-sanctioned Russian propaganda tool shows Moscow is upping its information warfare in the Balkans.
4. November 2024.
When entire families were killed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, almost all hope of ever identifying them died too.
22. October 2024.
Jury members praise probe into massive online pyramid scheme as ‘textbook example of good journalism, saying it ‘reads like a crime novel’.
4. October 2024.
Security agencies’ responses to a series of false bomb scares in Bosnia and Herzegovina have highlighted a general unpreparedness to address new security challenges and threats - suggesting that the hoaxers may want to publicly expose these inadequacies, experts say.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.