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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Council of Ministers was criticised for again failing to consider a revised national strategy for prosecuting war crimes to ensure that the country’s huge backlog of cases is processed by 2023. The Council of Ministers, the executive branch of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state-level government, has been criticised for again failing on Tuesday evening to consider a revised national strategy to clear up the country’s large backlog of war crimes cases.

From the next school year, high-school history textbooks in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska will be harmonised with Serbia, sharing the same standpoints on the 1992-95 war.

They have friends in high places and a stranglehold over the private security industry.

A far-right militant movement in Ukraine is forging ties with like-minded politicians and war veterans in European Union member Croatia, a BIRN investigation reveals. Chain-smoking in a Zagreb cafe, 43-year-old Denis Seler would hardly stand out were it not for the word AZOV emblazoned in Cyrillic on the front of his grey sweater. Seler is […]

The Dutch Supreme Court ruled that the Netherlands was partially responsible for 350 deaths in the 1995 Srebrenica massacres because its soldiers failed to protect the victims, but said the state was only 10 per cent liable.

At youth training camps in Serbia and Russia, teenagers are being taught pro-Russian ‘patriotic’ values and given military instruction by right-wing extremists with links to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The court rejected former policeman Dragan Janjic’s appeal against his conviction for raping a woman at a police station in the Foca area of eastern Bosnia in 1992 and sentenced him to seven years in prison.

Enver Buza, the former commander of a Bosnian Army battalion in Prozor, is on trial for failing to punish his subordinates for killing 27 Croat civilians in an attack on the village of Uzdol in 1993. In closing arguments at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday, the prosecution argued that former Bosnian Army battalion commander Enver Buza should be found guilty and given the harshest possible penalty.

Ahmet Sejdic, the former commander of the First Visegrad Brigade of the Bosnian Army, was cleared of the unlawful arrest and inhumane treatment of Serb civilians and prisoners of war in Rudo and Gorazde in 1992 and 1993. The Bosnian state court on Tuesday cleared former Bosnian Army brigade commander Ahmet Sejdic of 11 counts of inhumane treatment of Serb civilians and prisoners of war from the Bosnian Serb Army in the period between July 1992 and February 1993.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Ranka Tomic, convicted of involvement in the torture and murder of a Bosnian Army nurse during the war in 1992, had her jail sentence reduced from five to three years on appeal.

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Bosnian Ministers Fail to Adopt National War Crimes Strategy

Bosnian Serb Schoolbooks to Teach Same War History as Serbia

Foul Play: Serbia’s Football Hooligans Get Down to Business

Croatia Key to Ukrainian Far-Right’s International Ambitions

Netherlands ‘10% Responsible’ for Srebrenica

How Russian Fighters Train Serb Teens at ‘Military-Patriotic’ Camps

Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Jailed for Wartime Rape

Jail Urged for Bosnian Army Officer Accused over Croats’ Deaths

Bosniak Commander Acquitted of Abusing Serb Prisoners

Serbian Court Cuts Female War Criminal’s Prison Sentence

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