The massacre of 71 young people in Tuzla on May 25, 1995 was one of the most deadly crimes against civilians of the Bosnian war - but the only person to be convicted is still free.
A commemoration of more than 50 Yugoslav troops killed by Bosnian forces will not be held in Tuzla, where it happened, because Bosnian Serbs say they haven’t been allowed to install a memorial plaque.
The trial of former Bosnian Serb general Novak Djukic was again postponed, despite an expert confirming he can stand trial, after his lawyer said Djukic’s health had deteriorated.
A hearing in Belgrade in the case of former Bosnian Serb general Novak Djukic, sentenced for ordering a deadly artillery strike on Tuzla in Bosnia, was postponed because he was admitted to hospital.
Author Ilija Brankovic launched a new book in which he tries to dispute the Bosnian Serb Army’s responsibility for the deadly shelling of the Bosnian town of Tuzla in May 1995.
Ilija Brankovic’s book, ‘Undercover Operation at Tuzla’s Kapija Square’, was launched on Tuesday evening in Banja Luka, the main town in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska.
Twenty-four years have passed without any prosecutions for the ambush of the ‘Tuzla Convoy of Salvation’, when seven Bosniak truck drivers and several passengers were killed by Croat forces.
The authorities in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska said a commemoration of the 1992 killings of Yugoslav People’s Army troops will not be held in Tuzla this year, claiming it was unsafe.
Because of a lack of resources, Bosnians convicted of fighting for radical Islamist groups abroad are not helped to ‘deradicalise’ in jail or to reintegrate into society after their release.
The trial of Bosnian Serb general Novak Djukic - already convicted in Sarajevo of ordering a deadly artillery strike on Tuzla in Bosnia - was postponed again because of the defendant’s poor health.