Monday, 15 september 2025.
Batons and Blood: The Bosnian Music School That Became a Brutal Jail
Thirty years have passed since Bosnian Army troops detained and assaulted Croat and Serb prisoners in a music school basement in Zenica. In the Hague Tribunal archives, BIRN found names...
Justice Denied: How Warden of Infamous Bosnian Croat Camp Escaped Prosecution
Former inmates of the notorious Heliodrom camp still ask why warden Stanko Bozic – and others who allowed prisoners to be beaten and taken from the camp for forced labour...
Ex-Inmates Mark Bosnian Prison Camp Anniversary with Peace Message
Former inmates of a Bosnian Croat-run Heliodrom detention camp near Mostar marked the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the dissolution of the facility by paying tribute to prisoners who...
In Bosnia’s Mostar, Eyewitness Recalls Shock of Historic Bridge’s Destruction
Thirty years after the Ottoman-era Old Bridge in the Bosnian city of Mostar was brought down by artillery fire, a soldier who captured its collapse on video looks back on...
Mostar’s Unpunished Massacres, Part 3: The Long Wait for a Memorial
Since the Uborak and Sutina massacres, the most serious war crimes in the Herzegovina region during the 1990s conflict, the victims’ families have been calling for a dignified memorial, but...
Mostar’s Unpunished Massacres, Part 2: The Campaign for Justice
In the second in a three-part series, survivors of the 1992 Uborak and Sutina massacres speak about their long campaign for justice and the potential role of the Hague Tribunal’s...
Mostar’s Unpunished Massacres, Part 1: Eyewitnesses Tell the Story
The Uborak and Sutina massacres near Mostar were the first and the largest war crimes in the Herzegovina region during the 1990s conflict. In the first in a three-part series,...
Bosnia Finds 15 Bodies in War Grave in Mostar
At an exhumation in the village of Medjine in the Mostar area, investigators have discovered the remains of 15 people who are believed to have died during the war in...
Bosnia Exhumes Bones of Three War Victims in Mostar
Parts of the skeletons of three people, believed to be Bosniak victims of the war who disappeared in 1993, have been exhumed from a burial site in the Mostar area.
Nine Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighters Face Trial for Mass Killing
The Bosnian court confirmed an indictment charging nine former soldiers and policemen with committing a crime against humanity in the village of Zijemlje near Mostar, where around 100 Bosniaks, including...