Saturday, 1 February 2025.
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’...
BIRN Fact-Check: Trial Evidence Contradicts Claims in Bosnian Serbs’ Srebrenica Report
A report by a Bosnian Serb-funded commission has claimed the Srebrenica massacres were not genocide and most victims were not civilians – but some of its controversial assertions are contradicted...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighters’ Wartime Rape Sentences Reduced
The Bosnian court reduced by one year the sentences handed down to Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic for raping a Bosniak woman near Foca in 1992, jailing them for seven...
Bosnian Genocide Denial Ban Pleases Survivors, Angers Serbs
Survivors of the Srebrenica massacres welcomed the decision by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s international overseer to impose legislation to ban the denial of genocide and war crimes, but some Bosnian Serbs...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Pleads Not Guilty to War Crimes
Former Bosnian Serb Army company commander Rade Macura pleaded not guilty to failing to punish subordinates who abused and shot civilian prisoners in the Gradiska area in 1992.