Genocide in BiH Archives

Ahead of the former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s war crimes verdict this week, BIRN has compiled all its reports on the landmark case into a free, downloadable e-book. BIRN published a new e-book on Tuesday entitled ‘Radovan Karadzic: Wartime Leader’s Years on Trial’, ahead of the former Bosnian Serb wartime president’s final trial […]

As Radovan Karadzic’s final verdict approaches, witnesses who testified against the former Bosnian Serb political leader recall how they felt when they spoke about his alleged crimes to his face in the courtroom.

Prosecutors want the UN court to give former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic a life sentence for genocide and other crimes this week - but his defence insists the trial was unfair and the final verdict should acquit him.

A new behind-the-scenes documentary tracking the marathon trial of Ratko Mladic has upset some by depicting the genocide defendant as a human being, not a monster - but its director says it’s necessary to understand why people commit terrible crimes.

As Radovan Karadzic’s final verdict approaches next week, many of the 12 years he spent evading arrest remain shrouded in secrets that the Serbian and Bosnian authorities seem reluctant to probe, and people who helped him remain unprosecuted.

Two new commissions set up by Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity to examine wartime crimes in Srebrenica and Sarajevo have been accused of seeking to distort the truth to whitewash Serbs’ role in atrocities.

Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic asked the UN court in The Hague to grant him a provisional release until the final verdict in his trial next year.

Appeals judges confirmed the acquittal of the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry’s special police brigade, Goran Saric, clearing him of involvement in the Srebrenica genocide in 1995. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court has rejected a prosecution appeal as unfounded and confirmed the verdict that found former special police brigade commander Goran Saric not guilty of involvement in the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995, BIRN has learned.

Former Bosnian Serb battalion commander Ostoja Stanisic was sentenced to five years in prison for assisting the commission of genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Thursday upheld the conviction of Ostoja Stanisic, the former commander of the Sixth Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade, but reduced his sentence from 11 to five years.

A Bosnian Serb ex-soldier told a Belgrade court how he helped to conceal the bodies of several hundred Bosniaks from Srebrenica after a night-long mass execution in a hangar in the village of Kravica in 1995. Former Bosnian Serb soldier Zoran Eric told Belgrade Higher Court on Wednesday that he helped cover the bodies of 200 to 300 Srebrenica victims with hay after a night of mass shootings at an agricultural farm in Kravica in Bosnia in July 1995.

Genocide in BiH

BIRN Publishes Radovan Karadzic Trial E-Book

Testifying Against Karadzic: The Witnesses’ Stories

Karadzic Verdict: Mastermind of Violence or Victim of Injustice?

Understanding Ratko Mladic: Film Tells Inside Story of Trial

Mystery Persists Over Fugitive Karadzic’s Years in Hiding

Bosnian Serbs’ War Commissions: Fact-Seeking or Truth-Distorting?

Radovan Karadzic Asks for Release Before Final Verdict

Bosnian Serb Police Commander’s Genocide Acquittal Upheld

Bosnian Serb Battalion Chief Convicted of Assisting Genocide

Ex-Soldier Recalls Night-Long Execution of Srebrenica Bosniaks

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