4. April 2024.
Participants agree transitional judice is a priority for the EU and feelings of ‘fatigue’ must not get in the way.
Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
1. April 2024.
Vojin Pavlovic, head of the Eastern Alternative organisation, went on trial for inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred – the first person to be tried in the country for glorifying Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic.
14. March 2024.
Six former members of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade denied capturing and forcibly detaining more than 800 Bosniak men and boys during the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
11. March 2024.
Appeal judges at the Bosnian state court upheld the verdict convicting five former policemen of torturing Bosniak civilian detainees in the north-eastern town of Janja from 1992 to 1994.
8. March 2024.
Milomir Djuricic and Vukadin Spasojevic were found guilty of crimes including allowing Bosnian Serb fighters to assault prisoners and forcing inmates to have sex at the Uzamnica detention camp in Visegrad in 1992 and 1993.
4. March 2024.
Seven former Bosnian Army soldiers and military policemen were sentenced to a total of 36 years of prison for crimes against civilian detainees and prisoners of war held at a hotel in the town of Buzim in 1994-95.
29. February 2024.
Former Bosnian Serb Territorial Defence fighter Rade Grujic was convicted of committing a crime against humanity for raping a Bosniak woman who was being held captive in a house in the village of Liplje, near Zvornik, in 1992.
27. February 2024.
Samir Nukic was charged with inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred for writing posts on Facebook insulting Croat children who were killed in an artillery attack in the town of Vitez during wartime in 1993.
27. February 2024.
On the 31st anniversary of the abduction and execution of 20 non-Serb passengers seized from a train in Strpci in Bosnia during wartime, victims’ relatives expressed discontent about alleged perpetrators’ recent acquittals in Serbia.
6. February 2024.
The Bosnian court rejected a challenge to the verdict acquitting Spomenko Novovic and Borislav Pjano of involvement in the illegal detention and killing of Bosniak civilians in the Foca area during the war in 1992.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.