City: Srebrenica Archives

Ahead of Ratko Mladic’s appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes, Srebrenica victims’ relatives are becoming anxious about the outcome after judges were replaced for alleged bias against the Bosnian Serb commander. Mirsada Malagic is one of the key witnesses of the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995. Six members of her family […]

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s defence said he has serious health problems including a potential stroke and asked for his appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes to be postponed. Ratko Mladic’s defence lawyers said on Monday that they have asked the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague […]

Milomir Savcic, the head of the organisation that represents Bosnian Serb military veterans, pleaded not guilty to assisting the commission of genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995. Milomir Savcic, the president of the Veterans’ Organisation of Republika Srpska, pleaded not guilty at the Bosnian state court on Monday to assisting the commission of genocide in July 1995.

Serbian Radical Party members threw anti-war activists out of a building in Belgrade where a book by convicted war criminal Vojislav Seselj denying the Srebrenica genocide was being launched. Ultranationalist politician and war criminal Vojislav Seselj and members of his Serbian Radical Party on Wednesday evening physically forced anti-war activists out of a building in […]

Some of the war criminals from the 1990s conflicts who admitted their guilt in court spoke to BIRN about why they confessed - although some say now that they only expressed remorse to get shorter sentences.

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has accused the president of the Veterans’ Organization of Republika Srpska, BORS, Milomir Savcic, of assisting in the commission of genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995. Savcic has been charged, in his capacity as former commander of the 65th Protective Motorized Regiment of the Main Headquarters with the Bosnian Serb […]

The UN court in The Hague has scheduled former Bosnian Serb military chief’s appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes for March 17, 2020. The appeals chamber of Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has scheduled Ratko Mladic’s appeal for March 17 next year, as the former Bosnian Serb military commander challenges the first-instance verdict sentencing him to life imprisonment.

The sentence handed down to former Bosnian Army soldier Suad Smajlovic, convicted of mutilating Serb civilians’ dead bodies in 1992, was increased to three years in jail.

Former reservist policeman Slavko Milovanovic was acquitted of ordering the burning of Bosniaks’ homes during an attack by Bosnian Serb forces on a village near Srebrenica in May 1992. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday acquitted former reservist policeman Slavko Milovanovic of committing a crime against humanity in the village of Resagici near Srebrenica in May 1992.

The Bosnian court rejected wartime fighter Sasa Cvetkovic’s appeal against his conviction for the murder of two elderly Roma women and the rape of two Bosniaks in the Srebrenica and Bratunac areas in 1992. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Wednesday confirmed the verdict sentencing Sasa Cvetkovic to 12 years in prison for killing two elderly Roma women in May 1992 and raping two Bosniaks, one of them a minor, in June 1992.

City: Srebrenica

Ratko Mladic’s Appeal Causes Anxiety for Bosnian War Survivors

Ratko Mladic Seeks Appeal Delay Over Health Problems

Bosnian Serb Veterans’ Leader Denies Assisting Srebrenica Genocide

Serbian Nationalists Clash with Activists over Srebrenica Book

Culture of Denial: Why So Few War Criminals Feel Guilty

Savcic Indicted for Srebrenica Genocide

Ratko Mladic’s Appeal Set for March 2020

Increased Penalty for Smajlovic for Srebrenica Crimes

Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Acquitted of Burning Homes

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter’s Murder, Rape Conviction Upheld

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