Wednesday, 17 september 2025.
Bosnian Court Delivers First Genocide Denial Conviction
The Bosnian state court sentenced Vojin Pavlovic, the head of a Bosnian Serb NGO, to two-and-a-half years in prison for inciting hatred by denying the Srebrenica genocide and glorifying Ratko...
One-Year-Old Buried as Search for Murdered Children Continues in Bratunac
Almera Paraganlija, who was a year old when she and her mother were killed in the village of Joševa, is one of five war victims being buried at a collective...
Bosnia Tries Serb Nationalist for Glorifying Ratko Mladic
Vojin Pavlovic, head of the Eastern Alternative organisation, went on trial for inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred – the first person to be tried in the country for glorifying...
Bosnian War Prison Camp Detainees Were Raped, Witness Testifies
An ex-detainee told the war crime trial of former Bosnian Serb soldier Novak Stjepanovic that female captives were taken from the Sase mine prison camp near Srebrenica in 1992 to...
Bosnian Court Rejects Crimes Against Humanity Indictment Twice
The Bosnian state court has again rejected an indictment accusing wartime Serb official Milenko Stanic of committing crimes against humanity against Bosniak civilians in the Vlasenica area in 1992 and...
Bosnia Exhumes Remains of Five Suspected Female War Victims
The remains of at least five war victims, believed to be Bosniak women and girls from the same family who were killed in 1992, were found in the eastern Bosnian...
Bosnian Serb Report Claims Many Srebrenica Victims Weren’t Civilians
A report by a commission funded by the government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity claims that thousands of Bosniaks from Srebrenica who were killed in July 1995 were active...
Bosnia Asks Serbia to Prosecute Wartime Rape, Murder Suspect
The Bosnian state court has asked Serbia to take over the prosecution of wartime Bosnian Serb soldier Novak Stjepanovic, who is accused of rape, sexual abuse and the killing of...
Forgotten Victims: ‘Hundreds of Prisoners’ Killed by Bosnian Serbs at School
In the latest in the Forgotten Victims series, BIRN asks why there have been no convictions for the brutal abuse and murders of prisoners detained by Bosnian Serb forces at...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter’s Crimes Against Humanity Trial Opens
Former fighter Milan Trisic, who was deported from the US, went on trial for detaining, assaulting and killing Bosniak civilians who were taken from their village and held in captivity...