The newly-elected mayor of the Bosnian town of Vares wants to remove a multi-ethnic monument to all victims of the 1992-95 war, saying that its construction did not follow legal...
Police arrested former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Zarko Vulovic on suspicion that he committed crimes against humanity against Bosniak civilians in Foca in 1992. State Investigation and Protection Agency police...
More than 1,000 women in Bosnia and Herzegovina who suffered sexual violence during the 1990s conflict cannot become mothers because of serious psychological traumas and the medical consequences of being...
Sarajevo University’s law and political sciences faculties screened BIRN’s documentary ‘The Unidentified’, about the Serbian fighters responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the Kosovo war in 1999. ‘The...
Twelve witnesses’ testimony was discounted in the trial of a former Croatian Defence Council fighter for wartime crimes in Livno because the defendant’s lawyer was suspended.
A witness told the high-profile trial of the Bosnian Army’s former Srebrenica commander Naser Oric that the ex-general told him that he “cut the throat” of one of his alleged...
Recent weapons seizures in the Sarajevo area highlight how Bosnians still possess hundreds of thousands of illegal firearms from the 1990s war which pose a threat to public safety and...
Disciplinary proceedings were launched against state prosecutor Miroslav Janjic because he failed to include five people’s deaths in a war crimes indictment, not because he indicted a Bosniak commander, prosecutors...
A new district court and prosecution should be established in Prijedor in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska by the end of the year, giving victims cautious hope of faster war crimes...
Former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic’s defence filed an appeal against a court decision scheduling the presentation of closing statements in his trial for December this year.
Five people who were convicted of war crimes, corruption, kidnapping and abuse of office have been elected as mayors in municipal polls in Bosnia and Herzegovina.