Friday, 20 february 2026.
Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic Denied Early Release
The UN court rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Serb commander Radislav Krstic, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for aiding the genocide of Bosniaks from...
OSCE Mission Chief: Bosnia ‘Too Slow’ in Prosecuting War Crimes
The pace of war crimes prosecutions is too slow, with several thousand suspects still unindicted, and the conviction rate is too low, the outgoing chief of the OSCE Mission to...
Bosnian Serbs’ Deaths in Village Massacre Go Unpunished
More than 50 Serbs, including three young children, were killed in an attack by the Bosnian Army on the village of Josanica near Foca in December 1992, but no one...
Hague Rejects Karadzic’s Plea to Reconsider Denial of Appeal
The UN court in The Hague has rejected a request from former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic to reconsider a decision refusing him an appeal against the final sentence...
Wartime Landmines Still Taking Lives in Bosnia
Since 1996, when the demining process started in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war, a total of 55 Bosnian deminers and 673 civilians have been killed by exploding ordnance.
Bosnian Army Commander Honoured Despite War Crimes Charges
The OSCE criticised the Zenica-Doboj Canton’s decision to honour former Bosnian Army Third Corps commander Sakib Mahmuljin, who is on trial for failing to stop Islamic volunteer fighters torturing and...
Bosnia Publishes Database of 27,000 Wartime Missing Persons
The database of around 27,000 verified names of people who went missing in the 1992-95 war is being published to coincide with the International Day of the Disappeared.
UN Tells Bosnia to Apologise to Wartime Rape Victim
The UN Committee Against Torture has told Bosnia and Herzegovina to publicly apologise and pay compensation to a victim of wartime rape, and to institute reparations to survivors of sexual...
Passing Time Makes Search for Bosnia’s Wartime Missing Harder
Fewer of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s wartime missing persons are being found because witnesses who know about undiscovered mass graves are still unwilling to come forward and relatives are dying without...
Acquitted Serb Policeman Sues Bosnia for ‘Suffering’ During Trial
Former reservist policeman Milorad Radakovic is seeking 7,675 euros in compensation after he was acquitted of murdering five members of a family in a village near Prijedor during the war...
Sarajevo Commemorates Anniversary of Market Massacre
Mourners laid flowers at the site of a wartime massacre at the Markale market in Sarajevo, where 43 people died in an artillery attack by Bosnian Serb forces in August...
Bosnian Army Officer Rejects Responsibility for Croats’ Killings
Enver Buza, the former commander of a Bosnian Army battalion, said he should be acquitted of charges of failing to punish his subordinates for killing 27 Croat civilians in an...