31. May 2024.
Bosnia’s state court has confirmed its first-instance verdict and cleared Bosnian Serb Army company commander Rade Macura of involvement in war crimes in a village in the Bosanska Gradiska area in 1992.
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21. May 2024.
The UN war crimes court rejected a request from former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic to grant him provisional release on humanitarian grounds or allow him to continue to serve his life sentence in Serbia.
14. May 2024.
A Bosnian Serb former martial arts fighter has been posting videos and pictures online, documenting his new life as a volunteer soldier with a Russian unit fighting in Ukraine. BIRN was able to track his posts, following his journey to the frontline.
8. May 2024.
A facility was opened at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre to store the remains, personal belongings and clothes of victims of the Srebrenica genocide who haven’t been identified – intended as a place of dignified remembrance.
7. May 2024.
Nino Bilajac, a journalist at BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been nominated alongside his colleague Tomas Madlenak for this year’s Slovak Journalistic Award in the ‘written investigative journalism’ category.
4. April 2024.
Participants agree transitional judice is a priority for the EU and feelings of ‘fatigue’ must not get in the way.
2. April 2024.
The bodies of 373 children who went missing during the Bosnian war have yet to be found. But despite a lack of new information about grave sites and dwindling numbers of surviving witnesses, their parents haven't stopped waiting for news.
27. March 2024.
During a match last weekend, fans of a football club from Bijeljina displayed a banner of a notorious Russian military unit fighting in Ukraine. The Russian military unit, whose members look up to Arkan’s Tigers, thanked the fans on social media for their support. The fans in Bijeljina also called for the secession of Texas from the United States.
22. March 2024.
By testifying about beatings and sexual abuse suffered in Russian captivity, a woman from eastern Ukraine aims to inspire others to testify in order to document as many crimes as possible for ongoing and future trials. Comparing the experiences of suffering and trauma with those in Bosnia and Herzegovina, some Ukrainian activists fear that high-ranking Russian officials who gave orders will never be prosecuted.
19. March 2024.
Former inmates of a Bosnian Croat-run Heliodrom detention camp near Mostar marked the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the dissolution of the facility by paying tribute to prisoners who were killed and sending out a message of peace.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.