Sunday, 19 october 2025.
Croatia Seeks War Criminal’s Extradition from Bosnia for Murder
Vinko Martinovic, who has already served prison time for wartime ethnic cleansing, was arrested in Bosnia and is wanted by Croatia to serve another sentence for the post-war murder of...
Why Bosnia Can’t Stop War Crime Suspects from Fleeing
The disappearance of Bosnian Serb Army general Milomir Savcic, who is on trial for assisting the Srebrenica genocide, is the latest in a series of incidents in which war crimes...
Bosnia Completing Fewer War Crimes Cases, OSCE Warns
There has been a further decline in the number of war crimes cases being completed and the number of new indictments has also fallen, said the OSCE Mission to Bosnia...
Bosnia to Detain Srebrenica Defendant for Flouting Media Ban
Former Bosnian Serb officer Milomir Savcic, who is on trial for allegedly assisting the Srebrenica genocide, was remanded in custody for breaking a court order by speaking publicly about new...
BIRN Fact-Check: Trial Evidence Contradicts Claims in Bosnian Serbs’ Srebrenica Report
A report by a Bosnian Serb-funded commission has claimed the Srebrenica massacres were not genocide and most victims were not civilians – but some of its controversial assertions are contradicted...
Bosnian War Crimes Denial Ban Causes Trial Postponement
A hearing in a war crimes trial was postponed over confusion caused by changes to the criminal code imposed by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s international overseer to ban the denial of...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighters’ Wartime Rape Sentences Reduced
The Bosnian court reduced by one year the sentences handed down to Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic for raping a Bosniak woman near Foca in 1992, jailing them for seven...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Pleads Not Guilty to War Crimes
Former Bosnian Serb Army company commander Rade Macura pleaded not guilty to failing to punish subordinates who abused and shot civilian prisoners in the Gradiska area in 1992.
Six Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldiers Miss War Crimes Trial Opening
Six former Bosnian Serb Army military policemen failed to appear for the opening of their trial in Sarajevo for their alleged involvement in executing 78 Bosniak civilians in the Kljuc...
Mass Funeral Held for 12 War Victims from Bosnia’s Prijedor
The remains of the recently-exhumed victims of the Bosnian war were laid to rest at a funeral ceremony on the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha at the Kamicani Memorial...