Sunday, 14 september 2025.
BIRN Presents Database as Tool to Educate and Counter Revisionism
BIRN's new database of adjudicated facts on the 1992-5 war in Bosnia is designed as an educational tool that will also counter revisionist narratives and genocide denial.
Video Testimonials Tell Story of Sarajevo’s 44 Months Under Siege
Marking the 30th anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo, a new BIRN online project features the video testimonials of 44 people - one for each month of the military blockade...
Sarajevo Siege: The Long, Desperate Wait for News of the Missing
For families still searching for loved ones who went missing in wartime Sarajevo, the 30th anniversary of the start of the siege of the capital is a painful reminder that...
30 Years On, Photographs Evoke Everyday Terrors of Besieged Sarajevo
Paul Lowe’s exhibition of photographs of everyday life during the siege of Sarajevo shows how people in the Bosnian capital dealt with the everyday dangers and deprivations of war with...
Barricades at Dawn: Watching the Siege of Sarajevo Begin
When the first barricades went up in Sarajevo amid a dispute over Bosnia’s independence referendum, few thought war would start – but by April 1992, the 44-month siege of the...
Canada Deports Crime Against Humanity Suspect to Bosnia
Nikola Koprivica, who is suspected of committing a crime against humanity in the village of Novoseoci, where over 40 Bosniaks were executed in 1992, was extradited from Canada to Bosnia...
Reign of Terror: Arkan’s Tigers and the Start of the Bosnian War
Brutal attacks by warlord Arkan’s Serb paramilitaries on unarmed civilians living in the city of Bijeljina, captured in photographs that shocked the world, signalled the start of the war in...
Serbia, Bosnia, Ban Each Other’s Citizens on Security Grounds
Over the last 20 days, two Serbian citizens have been banned from entering Bosnia and one Bosnian citizen has been refused entrance to Serbia, all on security grounds, in what...
Bosnian Serb Leader Denies Wrongdoing Related to Bank Loan
After a hearing before the State Prosecution, Milorad Dodik again denied having taken out a fictitious loan from Pavlovic Banka to buy a luxury villa.