Friday, 27 february 2026.
Bosnian War Victims Praise Hague Tribunal’s Successes
Despite some shortcomings, the Hague Tribunal, which closes this month, has identified and prosecuted those responsible for grave crimes and brought some justice to people who suffered, said members of...
Bosnia Arrests Wartime Commander for General’s Murder
Hamdija Abdic, alias Tigar, who is considered a hero by Bosnian Army veterans, was arrested on suspicion that he was involved in the killing of a Bosnian Croat general in...
‘Secret’ Serbian Indictment Claims Army Helped Mladic
The indictment of Ratko Mladic’s aides, which the Serbian prosecution has released to BIRN after initially declaring it a state secret, says the Bosnian Serb military chief had Yugoslav Army...
Hague Tribunal Probes Slobodan Praljak’s Courtroom Death
As Dutch prosecutors confirmed that Bosnian Croat military chief Slobodan Praljak took poison before he died, the Hague Tribunal launched an independent review to establish what went wrong at the...
A Poisonous Week at the Hague Tribunal
The nationalistic reactions to the death of Slobodan Praljak and the conviction of Ratko Mladic show that bitterly hostile disagreements persist over the reasons for the 1990s wars and the...
UK’s Vulliamy Recalls Encounters with Belligerent Praljak
One of Britain’s most respected reporters on the Balkan wars of the 1990s has recalled his two encounters, in court and out, with Slobodan Praljak, the war criminal who committed...
Bosnian Croats Face Judgment on ‘Greater Croatia’ Charges
The Hague Tribunal will rule this week on an appeal from six wartime Bosnian Croat officials who were convicted of involvement in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at establishing a...
Croatian President Criticised for Backing War Crimes Defendants
A Zagreb rights NGO urged parliament to censure Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic for speaking in support of six former Bosnian Croat officials who are awaiting their verdict at the...
Bosnian Croat Officials Brought Together by War
An economics professor, a karate expert, a TV producer - six ex-officials of the Bosnian Croat wartime statelet Herzeg-Bosnia, now awaiting their final verdicts in The Hague, were brought together...
Trial Shows Croatian Money Fuelled Bosnian Croats’ War
The Hague Tribunal delivers its verdict on six Bosnian Croat ex-officials next week - but the trial has already revealed how Croatia funded the self-proclaimed Herzeg-Bosnia statelet’s forces while they...
COMMENT: After Mladic’s Conviction, Can Serbia Face Its Past?
The conviction of Ratko Mladic was overdue justice, but the full reckoning with the Serbian political project that he took to its genocidal extreme is still nowhere to be found.
Mladic Verdict Highlights Bosnia’s Ethnic Divisions
In a sign of continuing post-war divisions, Bosniak survivors of the conflict welcomed Ratko Mladic’s life sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity, but Bosnian Serbs accused the Hague Tribunal...