City: Sarajevo Archives

Marking the 30th anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo, a new BIRN online project features the video testimonials of 44 people - one for each month of the military blockade - recalling wartime hardships, atrocities and brief moments of joy.

For families still searching for loved ones who went missing in wartime Sarajevo, the 30th anniversary of the start of the siege of the capital is a painful reminder that three decades of hope and anguish have passed.

Bosnian Serb Army veterans installed a new plaque in Sarajevo that honours their former military commander Ratko Mladic, defying legislation that prohibits the honouring of war criminals.

Wartime Bosnian Serb Army officer Veljko Papic’s conviction for forcing civilians to do hard labour on the front lines in besieged Sarajevo in 1993-94 was overturned and a retrial ordered.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network is holding an exhibition and publishing a book commemorating journalists and media workers who were killed during and just after the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia.

Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina arrested five people on Tuesday on suspicion of war crimes against Serb civilians and prisoners of war in the wider Sarajevo area during the 1992-95 war.

A multimedia exhibition created by Paul Lowe uses photography, 3-D models and witness testimonies to explore stories from Sarajevo’s ‘Sniper Alley’ during the 1992-95 siege of the Bosnian capital.

Photographer Paul Lowe is presenting a BIRN-backed multimedia exhibition entitled ‘Watch Out, Sniper’, documenting the experiences of people who endured the dangers of Sarajevo’s Sniper Alley during the 1992-95 siege.

A memorial was unveiled to the mostly Serb victims who were killed in 1992 and 1993 at the Kazani Pit in the hills above Sarajevo on the orders of a Bosniak commander of a Bosnian Army brigade.

The Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from former Bosnian Army soldier Mirsad Menzilovic, who was sentenced to six years in prison for raping a minor in Sarajevo in 1993.

City: Sarajevo

Video Testimonials Tell Story of Sarajevo’s 44 Months Under Siege

Sarajevo Siege: The Long, Desperate Wait for News of the Missing

Ratko Mladic Plaque Installed Near Sarajevo Despite Legal Ban

Bosnian Serb Army Officer’s Forced Labour Conviction Quashed

BIRN Exhibition and Book Tells Stories of War Reporters’ Deaths

Five Arrested in Bosnia for War Crimes against Serb Civilians

‘Watch Out, Sniper’ Exhibition Tells Tragic Stories of Sarajevo Siege

Sarajevo Exhibition Documents Perils of Wartime ‘Sniper Alley’

Sarajevo Unveils Memorial to Victims of Kazani Pit Killings

Bosnian Soldier’s Appeal Against War Rape Conviction Rejected

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