12. November 2024.
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 – never faced court.
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
10. October 2024.
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 [unrecognised wartime statelet] Herzeg-Bosnia and the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, were prosecuted in The Hague for the crime, but only three former HVO members were convicted in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
11. September 2024.
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 their war crimes convictions.
29. July 2024.
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 to 28 years in prison for multiple rapes and enslavement in Foca.
21. May 2024.
The UN war crimes court rejected a request from former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic to grant him provisional release on humanitarian grounds or allow him to continue to serve his life sentence in Serbia.
4. March 2024.
The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has sent the contempt of court case against ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj and four co-accused to the Serbian judiciary for trial in Belgrade.
5. February 2024.
Former Bosnian Serb Army officer Radislav Krstic, the first person to be convicted by the Hague Tribunal of involvement in the Srebrenica genocide, has asked again to be freed after his previous requests were denied.
16. May 2023.
The UN court in The Hague will hand down its verdict in the war crimes retrial of Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic after they appealed against their initial conviction.
19. April 2023.
Tributes have been paid to the victims of an artillery strike on the Bosnian town of Zenica in April 1993 that left 15 people dead, including a child – an attack that no one has been convicted of ordering.
14. April 2023.
In April 1993, on one of the most tragic days of the Bosnian war, 116 Bosniaks were murdered in the village of Ahmici and 22 Croats were killed in the village of Trusina. Thirty years on, survivors are still mourning.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.