The annual commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide will see the burials of 19 more victims identified over the past year, the youngest of whom was 16 when he was killed.
BIRN has identified at least 20 Twitter accounts that actively dispute the international court classification of the 1995 Srebrenica massacres as genocide. Their denial of the crime frequently goes unchallenged.
Acting on the PM's proposal, parliament on Thursday sacked Minister of Justice Vladimir Leposavic for remarks casting doubt on the Srebrenica genocide, while also adopting a resolution prohibiting public denial of the genocide.
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 Srebrenica in 1995, but experts believe this is unlikely to happen.
Mothers of Srebrenica genocide victims are awaiting the final verdict in Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s trial next week - but as the years have passed, some mothers who followed the trial intently have died before seeing the justice they craved.
He was a devoted Yugoslav soldier, then a war crimes suspect on the run - now former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic awaits his final court verdict for the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.
Three more victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide whose remains were discovered in mass graves have been officially identified, including a boy who was 16 when he was killed.
After the latest in a decade-long series of unsuccessful attempts to pass a law banning the denial of the Srebrenica genocide, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official could take action to impose legislation from above.
Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic asked parliament to approve the dismissal of Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights Vladimir Leposavic because he expressed doubt that the 1995 massacres of Bosniaks from Srebrenica were genocide.
Zoran Malinic is accused of assisting in the commission of genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 when he was the commander of a Bosnian Serb Army military police battalion.