Thursday, 3 july 2025.
Prosecutors at BIRN War Crimes Conference Urge Cooperation
Prosecutors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro, as well as the Hague Tribunal and the EU’s Kosovo mission, told a BIRN conference that states must work together to prosecute...
BIRN Launches Interactive War Crimes Verdict Map
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has launched a unique database of the publicly-available final verdicts delivered in 386 war crimes cases by courts in the former Yugoslavia and by the...
Serbs to Stage Sarajevo Attack Reconstructions
Experts engaged by the Bosnian Serb authorities will stage reconstructions of the deadly blasts at Sarajevo’s Markale marketplace in 1994 and 1995 and an attack on a bread queue in...
Bosnian Serb Soldier Acquitted of Sokolac Beating
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Milenko Krsmanovic was acquitted of beating up a Bosniak civilian in the village of Pediste in the Sokolac municipality in July 1992. The District Court in...
Hague Tribunal Slams Serbia Again For Non-Cooperation
Judges at the UN court said that Belgrade is refusing to fulfil its obligations and transfer three members of Vojislav Seselj’s Serbian Radical Party for trial on witness intimidation charges.
Mladic Trial: Court Refuses to Consider Bias Claims
The Hague Tribunal refused to consider a motion filed by former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s defence asking for the trial to be stopped because the court was systematically...
Bosnian War Rape Victims Struggle for Compensation
Only three verdicts in state-level war crimes cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina have ever ordered compensation payments to victims of sexual violence, but none of the victims has received any...
UN Court Gives $508,797 for Karadzic’s Appeal
The UN war crimes court has granted $508,797 for the preparation of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s appeal against his conviction for genocide and crimes against humanity.
Bosnia Arrests Six Serbs for Milici War Crimes
Six former Bosnian Serb soldiers and military policemen were arrested on suspicion that they committed crimes against humanity against over 60 Bosniaks, including children, in the Milici municipality in 1992....