The remains of 50 victims of the July 1995 massacres of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces, including three minors, will be buried at next week’s 27th anniversary commemoration of the genocide.
On the anniversary of the Srebrenica massacres, a few kilometres away from the annual commemoration, a nationalist group will screen a film praising Bosnian Serb forces and genocide convict Ratko Mladic for ‘liberating’ the enclave.
The Hague-based court denied a request for early release from Bosnian Serb general Radivoje Miletic, who is serving an 18-year sentence for committing crimes against humanity in Srebrenica in 1995.
After facing uproar for rejecting a proposed parliamentary vote to condemn the Srebrenica genocide, Albania’s governing Socialist Party has put forward its own resolution for MPs to approve.
With a cast and crew from across the Balkans, Italy and France, a new play takes on the controversy surrounding Peter Handke’s 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature and asks, ‘Can we separate the art from the artist?’
‘Dangerous Names’, a play about the 1995 genocide whose leading roles are played by a Srebrenica survivor and a former Dutch peacekeeping soldier, was given its Bosnian premiere in Sarajevo.
Policemen Milan Dumanovic and Mladen Trbovic were cleared of disclosing an official secret when they spoke publicly about covertly recording a Srebrenica genocide commemoration in 2015, when Serbian leader Aleksandar Vucic was attacked.
Villagers in Poljak, near Srebrenica, commemorated the 29th anniversary of an attack by Serb forces that left 21 people dead, including two children - for which no one has yet been prosecuted.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Rade Garic’s sentence for persecuting Bosniaks from the Vlasenica and Srebrenica areas in 1992 and 1995 was reduced on appeal from 20 years to 17 years in prison.
Milenko Zivanovic, a former general and commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, was charged with directing armed units that attacked Bosniak civilians in the Srebrenica and Zepa areas in 1995.