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 of suspected perpetrators who never stood trial.
Ahead of the appeal in the Hague court’s trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, the widow of a man killed by Serb fighters operating in Bosnia in 1995 said she wants to see justice done.
Mirko Klarin was the editor-in-chief and founder of SENSE news agency, known for its comprehensive coverage of war crime trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Almost three decades after the last prisoners left the notorious Dretelj detention camp, several Bosnian Croat military policemen and security officers named in a Hague Tribunal verdict who could be suspects in the abuse and deaths of inmates have never been charged.
New president of UN war crimes court says oral hearing on the appeal on the guilty verdict against Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic will be held in January.
Radoslav Brdjanin, wartime leader of a Serb-run rebel territory called the Autonomous Region of Krajina in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has died at the age of 74, a few days after his release from prison.
Radoslav Brdjanin, wartime leader of a Serb-run rebel territory called the Autonomous Region of Krajina in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was released after serving two-thirds of his 30-year sentence.
Accepting that genocide was committed against Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 is necessary if there is to be meaningful post-war reconciliation, the new head of the UN court in The Hague, Graciela Gatti Santana, tells BIRN.
Bosnian war victims’ associations say high number of dropped investigations, almost 40 per cent of the total, is a cause for concern – and their names should be published.