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As efforts continue to finally make Sarajevo landmine-free this year, Bosnia’s demining experts explain how they deal with facing death or injury every day – and why they dedicate their lives to such a dangerous job. It’s 16 minutes past midday on Christmas Eve, and Sead Vrana sends me a text on Viber, seeking to […]

Former Bosnian Serb fighter Mico Jovicic became the first witness to testify that five fellow Serb ex-fighters were involved in the kidnapping and killing of 20 passengers from a train at Strpci in Bosnia in 1993. Mico Jovicic, a wartime volunteer fighter for Bosnian Serb forces, told Belgrade Higher Court that all five defendants on trial for the kidnapping and killing of 20 passengers from a train at Strpci station in Bosnia and Herzegovina were at the crime scenes when the offences were committed.

An organisation run by a Russian army veteran who organised militias in eastern Ukraine and Crimea has given an award to a Serbian citizen who fought for the pro-Russian separatist cause. The Novorossiya Movement, an organisation run by notorious Russian army veteran Igor Strelkov, has given Serbian citizen Stevan Milosevic its ‘Protector of Novorossiya’ award […]

Lawmakers in the upper house of the Bosnian parliament voted to reject a proposed legal change intended to make the denial of genocide and war crimes punishable by jail sentences. The House of Peoples, the upper house of the Bosnian parliament, voted on Thursday against changing the criminal code of Bosnia and Herzegovina to criminalise […]

The Bosnian state court has ordered a two-month custody extension for six men accused of going to fight in the conflict in Syria, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina was told.

Munib Ahmetspahic expressed regret for having joined the Islamic State in Syria. A Court declared him “deradicalised”, but experts say his case provides few real lessons for the fight against religious radicalism. Standing in a Bosnian courtroom in April last year, Munib Ahmetspahic repented. “How naïve we were,” he said. The war in Syria had […]

How Bosnia’s neglect of its wartime displaced foreshadowed its latest humanitarian crisis. Milena Mitrović, Rogatica, Zvornik i Sarajevo On Easter Sunday 2010, Angelina Jolie came to the eastern Bosnian town of Rogatica and performed a miracle. The Hollywood star had been touring the country in her off-screen role as ambassador for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. […]

Salko Hondo, a veteran photojournalist for Oslobodjenje, the Sarajevo-based newspaper that courageously kept on publishing throughout the three-and-a-half-year siege of the city, went on his final assignment on July 16, 1992. Hondo had been deployed to take pictures of people queueing for water near the marketplace in the Ciglane neighbourhood when a projectile exploded close […]

Defendant Suad Jukanovic admitted guilt for sending a false report through a social network to a diplomatic mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina in December 2016 saying that his cousin was associated with terrorist activities. He got a suspended sentence of eight months.

The Mothers of Srebrenica war victims’ association filed a complaint against the Netherlands at the European Court for Human Rights, claiming that Dutch UN peacekeepers failed to protect Bosniaks who were killed in the 1995 massacres.

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For Bosnia’s Landmine Clearers, Hope is Stronger than Fear

Tensions Flare as Bosnian Serb Accuses Fellow Ex-Fighters of Massacre

Serb Awarded for Fighting for Pro-Russian Forces in Ukraine

Bosnian MPs Reject Legislation to Criminalise Genocide Denial

Bosnia Extends Custody for Six Syrian War Suspects

In Bosnia’s First ‘Deradicalised’ Syria Fighter, Limited Lessons

No Country for the Needy: Bosnia Fails to House its Displaced

Last Despatches: Photographer Who Captured Life and Death in Sarajevo

Eight Months for Falsely Reporting Terrorist Activities

‘Mothers of Srebrenica’ File Euro Court Complaint Against Netherlands

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