Thursday, 3 april 2025.
Bosnian State Court Shocks Journalists
Journalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina have expressed outrage at the new Regulations on access to information within the Bosnian State Court, through which the media can only get ten minutes...
Accepting a Difficult Truth: ICTY is Not Our Court
The impact of Yugoslav general Momcilo Perisic’s acquittal illustrates the insurmountable distance between the Hague Tribunal and people in the Balkans, who must take responsibility for dealing with their past.
Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Silences Itself
In March 2012, the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina promulgated a decision and a new rulebook (pravilnik) that severely restricted the public’s access to information relevant to the proceedings...
War Crimes Trials are no Divorce Cases
War crimes trials are not private disputes that should be protected from the public, but processes that should be used for determining what happened and why, as well as who...
Local Justice – Zenica: Hard war crimes investigations
The war crimes investigation department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) in Zenica-Doboj Canton currently have arround ten active investigations but they claim that work on them is ''extrimely...
Mladic Divides Bosnia Once Again
The arrest of Ratko Mladic has split opinion in Bosnia, with some welcoming the news and others accusing Serbia of "trading Mladic for EU membership".
European Leaders Welcome Mladic Arrest
Serbian leader says Mladic arrest disproves criticism of Serbia’s level of cooperation with war crimes tribunal; EU foreign policy chief calls for ex-general’s immediate transfer to The Hague.
Local Justice: Families of Victims from Vranica Await Start of Retrial
Families of members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, who were last seen alive in the “Vranica” building in Mostar are disappointed that no one has been successfully...
Pelemis and Peric: Security Officer Acted Appropriately
Expert military witness Petar Vuga says that indictee Slavko Peric acted appropriately when he came to the school building in Pilica, where a large group of Bosniak prisoners had been...