Relatives and friends of 43 people including three children who were killed in the shelling of Sarajevo’s Markale marketplace by Bosnian Serb forces in August 1995 gathered to commemorate the anniversary.
The pandemic may have forced Pride organisers to cancel their planned march this year in Sarajevo, but activists say they will compensate for this loss with a host of other activities.
The authorities in the Sarajevo Canton allocated around 1,370,000 euros from 2013 to 2020 to help defend mainly Bosniak ex-soldiers and police officers on trial for war crimes and to assist their families, BIRN has learned.
The State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA arrested a man who allegedly expressed racist and anti-Semitic views and issued online threats to citizens of the United States on several occasions, SIPA told BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Eleven-year-old Marko Zizic was one of a dozen people killed when a football match in a parking lot was shelled in Sarajevo on June 1, 1993 - and none of the direct perpetrators has ever been prosecuted.
Sarajevo Canton bought 50,000 protective masks from a company owned by the son of a cantonal parliamentarian, raising questions of corruption and conflict of interests, BIRN BiH has learned.