Wednesday, 20 may 2026.
Bosnian War’s ‘Disappeared’ Remembered with Roses
White roses were thrown from the Old Bridge in the town of Mostar on the International Day of the Disappeared in tribute to around 7,600 people who went missing during...
Cases Closed: Deaths of Ageing Balkan War Suspects Thwart Justice
Years after the 1990s wars, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia have continued to slowly prosecute wartime crimes – but with increasing numbers of ageing suspects falling ill or dying,...
Ratko Mladic’s Health Deteriorating, His Lawyers Claim
As the former Bosnian Serb military chief, who was convicted of genocide and other wartime crimes by the UN court in June, awaits transfer to prison to serve his life...
Families Mourn Victims of Bosnia’s Koricani Cliffs Massacre
Ahead of the anniversary of the 1992 killings of around 200 Bosniaks and Croats at the Koricani Cliffs on Bosnia’s Mount Vlasic, relatives said they hope the bodies of the...
Bosnian War Crime Case Closed After Suspect Dies in Serbia
The case against Nenad Bubalo, a former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman accused of participating in the murders of at least five civilians during the Bosnian war in 1992, was...
Bosnia Charges Serb Ex-Policemen with Wartime Murders, Rapes
Bosnian prosecutors charged three ex-policemen with murders, sexual abuse and rapes in the Brcko area in 1992, including Ranko Cesic, who has already been convicted of other wartime crimes by...
Croatia Seeks War Criminal’s Extradition from Bosnia for Murder
Vinko Martinovic, who has already served prison time for wartime ethnic cleansing, was arrested in Bosnia and is wanted by Croatia to serve another sentence for the post-war murder of...
Why Bosnia Can’t Stop War Crime Suspects from Fleeing
The disappearance of Bosnian Serb Army general Milomir Savcic, who is on trial for assisting the Srebrenica genocide, is the latest in a series of incidents in which war crimes...
Bosnia Completing Fewer War Crimes Cases, OSCE Warns
There has been a further decline in the number of war crimes cases being completed and the number of new indictments has also fallen, said the OSCE Mission to Bosnia...
Bosnia to Detain Srebrenica Defendant for Flouting Media Ban
Former Bosnian Serb officer Milomir Savcic, who is on trial for allegedly assisting the Srebrenica genocide, was remanded in custody for breaking a court order by speaking publicly about new...
Bosnian Education System Failing to Spot Radicalisation of Pupils
Experts say that the radicalisation of minors is becoming an increasingly challenging problem for Bosnia and Herzegovina, as schools lack the expertise and resources to tackle it and the authorities’...
Christian Schmidt: Glorifying War Criminals is ‘Unacceptable’
At his first press conference, the new High Representative in Bosnia said there was no excuse for glorifying war criminals and he had not come to Bosnia to ’drink coffee’...