Justice TV Archives

In the new edition of TV Justice we’ll be talking about crimes committed in Foca during the war, which are commemorated in August. In the spring and summer of 1992, members of the non-Serb population were held in detention facilities, raped, killed and deported. More than 600 people who went missing during that period are still being looked for, and surviving victims and people who returned to Foca after the war are struggling to overcome its legacy without the support of the authorities.

For a third year running, staff at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre have been filming stories about the lives of residents of Srebrenica before and during the war, as well as their experiences of surviving the genocide. With stories filmed over the past year included, testimonials by 500 victims have so far been permanently preserved in the Memorial Centre’s archive.

In May and June 1992, attacks on Rogatica were carried out, and local Bosniaks attempted to avoid the horrors of war by looking for safety in the woods and neighbouring villages. Those who didn’t manage to escape were either killed or detained.

At the end of this month, White Armband Day will be marked in the city of Prijedor and tributes paid to those who were killed in 1992, including 102 children. In this edition we’ll try to find out how their parents in the city feel today, what revives their traumas and whether post-war returnees are now leaving the town because of what happened in the past, or for other reasons.

In this April edition, we’ll be talking about what and how much children learn in schools about the conflicts of the 1990s. We’ll be focusing on a story about a two-year effort to improve teaching of the facts related to the Bosnian war.

This month, we’ll be talking about the hate-inspired murders of women and the reasons why the judiciary is failing to punish the killers more harshly.

This month we’ll be showing how Bosnia and Herzegovina failed to meet the expectations of Uyghurs who thought the country would offer them sanctuary and we’ll be travelling to Istanbul, looking for members of the Chinese Muslim minority group who returned there from the Bosnian border because of the domestic authorities’ slow response to their pleas.

This month we’ll be analysing whether Republika Srpska entity president Milorad Dodik is replacing Russia with China as his key international partner and what effect this is having on Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This month we’ll be talking about how retail outlets in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia profit from spreading hate and get away with selling clothes that glorify war criminals and far-right ideologies.

When Russia cut the flow of gas for a few days in 2009 due to a dispute with Ukraine, tens of thousands of households in Bosnia and Herzegovina were left without heating during that cold winter. Thirteen years later, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the price of gas has gone up and people using gas for heating are worried if there will even be enough of it. While European Union countries have stored enough gas for the upcoming winter, Bosnia and Herzegovina is still exclusively dependent on gas deliveries from Russia. In this programme, we’ll be analysing what the authorities have failed to do, but also what can still be done in order for Bosnia to end the Russian monopoly over its gas imports.

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Episode 152: War Crimes Victims in Foca Struggle Unaided to Overcome War’s Legacy

Episode 151: Srebrenica – Preserving Memories to Combat Genocide Denial

Episode 150: Painful memories of rape, torture and killings in Rogatica in 1992

Episode 149: Fear and uncertainty make Prijedor’s returnees consider leaving again

Episode 148: Bringing Wartime Facts to Bosnia’s Schools

Episode 147: Can hate crimes against women be punished more harshly in Bosnia

Episode 146: How Bosnia failed to shelter Uygurs from Chinese persecution

Episode 145: Did China became Milorad Dodik’s most important ally in 2022?

Episode 144: Online profiteers of hate flourish in Bosnia and Serbia

Episode 143: How Russia’s control over gas puts Bosnia and Herzegovina at its mercy

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