Wednesday, 17 september 2025.
Serb War Criminal’s Genocide Confession Falls on Deaf Ears Among Ethnic Kin
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.
First Srebrenica Genocide Convict Seeks Early Release Again
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...
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...
Hague Tribunal Leaves Uncertain Legacy as Last Trial Nears End
Ahead of the initial verdict in the last trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, BIRN looks back on the landmark judgments, controversies, successes and failures in the UN court’s...
Nine Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldiers and Police Arrested for War Crimes
The nine men were detained on suspicion of involvement in the killings of 44 Bosniak civilians in a village in the Sokolac municipality during the Bosnian war in September 1992.
Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic Denied Early Release
The UN court rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Serb commander Radislav Krstic, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for aiding the genocide of Bosniaks from...
Intercepted Discussions Mention Srebrenica Killings, Says Prosecution
At the ongoing Ratko Mladic trial, a defense witness didn’t question the authenticity of intercepted discussions between former members of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) about the killing of...
Intercepting Bosnian Serb Army’s Links
Defence witness Nedo Blagojevic told Ratko Mladic's trial in the Hague that Bosnian Army was not able to fully intercept radio relay links of the Bosnian Serb Army in east...
Mladic Commanded even When in Belgrade
The Prosecution’s military expert Richard Dannatt says before The Hague Tribunal that Mladic commanded the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, in the days after the occupation of Srebrenica in July 1995,...