Tuesday, 16 september 2025.
Bosnia Charges Ex-Fighters, Policeman with Wartime Violence
The Bosnian prosecution charged two former Territorial Defence fighters with attacking Serb civilians near Kotor Varos in 1992 and a former policeman with violence against Bosniaks in the Foca area...
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 Charges Ex-Police Officer with Crime Against Humanity
Zdravko Samardzija, a former co-commander of a special police unit, is accused of involvement in the persecution, unlawful detention and killing of Bosniak and Croat civilians in the Kotor Varos...
War Victims Hope for Double Genocide Conviction for Ratko Mladic
Bosnian war survivors want former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic to be found guilty this week of genocide in five Bosnian municipalities in 1992 as well as genocide in...
Bosnian Investigators Find Bones at Suspected War Grave Site
Human remains suspected to date back to the 1990s war have been discovered during an exhumation at Duboki Potok near the town of Knezevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Hague Court Exhibit Shows Children’s Wartime Suffering
The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals launched an online multimedia exhibition giving insights into the suffering of children during the former Yugoslav wars and the Rwanda genocide.
Detainee Recalls Beating by Kotor-Varos Policeman
At the trial of five former policemen and an ex-soldier for crimes against Bosniaks and Croats in the Kotor-Varos area, a prosecution witness said he was beaten up by one...
Victim Accuses Policeman of Rape in Doboj
A prosecution witness told the war crimes trial of former Serb special policeman Slobodan Karagic that the defendant raped her in Doboj when she was 15. The protected prosecution witness...
Witness Recalls Beatings, Murders of Kotor-Varos Prisoners
A prosecution witness told the trial of six former Bosnian Serb fighters that he saw the beating and killing of detained Bosniaks and Croat civilians in Kotor-Varos in 1992. Witness...
Bosnian War Rape Victims Struggle for Compensation
Only three verdicts in state-level war crimes cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina have ever ordered compensation payments to victims of sexual violence, but none of the victims has received any...