Saturday, 5 april 2025.
Peace Activists Mark ‘Forgotten’ Bosnian War Detention Sites
Activists installed symbolic signs at unmarked and neglected ‘sites of suffering’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina where prisoners were detained, abused and killed during the 1992-95 war.
Bosnian Detention Camp Guard’s Prisoner Abuse Conviction Upheld
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal by Ivan Medic, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for mistreating civilian prisoners at the Dretelj detention camp near Capljina.
Bosnia Arrests Ex-Policeman for Killing War Prisoners
Police arrested Ivan Djuric, who is suspected of committing crimes against humanity including murder against Bosniak, Croat and ethnic Albanian prisoners who were illegally detained in the town of Brcko...
Bosnian Serb Wartime Camp Guards Convicted of Abusing Prisoners
The Bosnian court sentenced Boris Bosnjak, Miodrag Grubacic and Ilija Djajic to a total of 21 years in prison for the inhumane treatment of Bosniak and Croat civilian detainees held...
Bosnian Serb War Convict Indicted Again for Killing Bosniaks
Former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Predrag Bastah, who is already been serving a sentence for war crimes, was charged with involvement in the killings of 37 Bosniak civilians near Vlasenica.
Bosnian Croats’ Prisoner Abuse Sentences Reduced after Retrial
Three former Bosnian Croat fighters had their prison sentences reduced as they were convicted at a retrial of mistreating Bosniak prisoners at a military jail in Ljubuski during the war.
Bosnia Acquits Wartime Police Chief of Illegally Detaining Serbs
Ibro Merkez, a wartime police chief in the Bosnian town of Gorazde, was found not guilty on appeal of the unlawful detention and inhumane treatment of Serb civilian prisoners in...
Freed War Criminal Zdravko Mucic Drowns in Bosnia
Released war criminal Zdravko Mucic, the commander of a prison camp who was jailed by the Hague Tribunal over the deaths, torture and inhumane treatment of Serb inmates, drowned after...
Forgotten Victims: How Bosnian Villagers Liberated a Wartime Detention Camp
The latest in BIRN’s Forgotten Victims series examines how families were imprisoned, men killed and women raped at a Bosnian Serb-run detention camp near Zvornik in 1992 - until a...
Bosnian Court Urged to Acquit Croats of Abusing Prisoners
Lawyers for former Croatian Defence Council military policemen argued that they should be acquitted of mistreating Bosniak prisoners at a military jail in Ljubuski from 1993-94 during the Bosnian war.