Thirty years after, a total of 54 people have been sentenced to 781 years in prison for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica. But there are fewer and fewer trials,...

The UN war crimes court in The Hague has rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Croat political chief Jadranko Prlic, citing his “heinous” crimes and “insufficient” rehabilitation.

Radislav Krstic’s confession and request for forgiveness for the 1995 Srebrenica massacres was largely ignored in Serbia and among Bosnian Serbs, where genocide denial remains rife.

‘Weekend warriors’ were volunteer fighters who popped in and out of war zones in the 1990s. Many came from Montenegro, but few have ever faced justice for the war crimes...

Former Bosnian Serb interior minister Mico Stanisic, sentenced to 22 years in prison by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, has submitted a request for early release from...

Thirty years have passed since Bosnian Army troops detained and assaulted Croat and Serb prisoners in a music school basement in Zenica. In the Hague Tribunal archives, BIRN found names...

Former inmates of the notorious Heliodrom camp still ask why warden Stanko Bozic – and others who allowed prisoners to be beaten and taken from the camp for forced labour...

This month marks the 31st anniversary of one of the largest mass crimes against civilians in the village of Stupni Do, near Vares. Former senior officials of Herzeg-Bosnia and the...

Under the new educational curriculum in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity, elementary school students will be taught about the achievements of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic – but not about...

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for a third time rejected the early release request of the wartime leader of a Bosnian Serb Army reconnaissance unit who was sentenced...