1. October 2024.
The Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide has launched a new website designed to monitor and record all forms of genocide and war crimes denial in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Genocide in BiH
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.
11. July 2024.
A commission set up to recompense relatives of certain Srebrenica genocide victims because Dutch peacekeeping troops failed to protect them has paid out millions of euros in compensation for 611 of the victims’ deaths.
10. July 2024.
Ibro Zahirovic filmed life in the besieged enclave during the Bosnian war and captured the last moments before it fell in July 1995 – escaping with videos that were later used as evidence at the Hague Tribunal.
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. April 2024.
Participants agree transitional judice is a priority for the EU and feelings of ‘fatigue’ must not get in the way.
2. April 2024.
The bodies of 373 children who went missing during the Bosnian war have yet to be found. But despite a lack of new information about grave sites and dwindling numbers of surviving witnesses, their parents haven't stopped waiting for news.
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.
23. January 2024.
Nick Teunissen was so intrigued by a photograph of a young Bosnian who went missing during the Srebrenica genocide, he decided to write a book that would illuminate some of the real lives behind the headlines and casualty figures.
2. January 2024.
In a series of indictments announced over the New Year period, 15 suspects were charged with various wartime crimes including attacks on villages that left dozens of Bosniaks and Croats dead and executing hundreds of men from Srebrenica.
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