13. October 2021.
A decree from the president of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity declaring non-compliance with a state law banning the denial of genocide and war crimes has taken the country into uncertain legal territory.
Genocide in BiH
1. October 2021.
A year after the identity of a protected witness in a Srebrenica genocide trial was publicly revealed by media in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, putting his safety at risk, the Bosnian prosecution has not brought any charges.
20. September 2021.
The Srebrenica Memorial Centre marked the 18th anniversary of its opening by staging an exhibition of personal items that illustrate the suffering of victims and survivors of the 1995 genocide.
8. September 2021.
Prosecutors charged the mayor of Montenegro’s second city of Niksic, Marko Kovacevic, with inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred after he denied that the Srebrenica massacres were genocide.
2. September 2021.
Wartime Bosnian Serb Army battalion commander Srecko Acimovic was convicted of assisting the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 and sentenced to seven years in prison.
30. August 2021.
A new report warns that videos that praise war criminals like Ratko Mladic and deny the Srebrenica genocide and the Holocaust are being posted on the TikTok video-sharing platform.
24. August 2021.
As the former Bosnian Serb military chief, who was convicted of genocide and other wartime crimes by the UN court in June, awaits transfer to prison to serve his life sentence, he is suffering from increasingly poor health, his lawyers said.
11. August 2021.
The disappearance of Bosnian Serb Army general Milomir Savcic, who is on trial for assisting the Srebrenica genocide, is the latest in a series of incidents in which war crimes suspects and convicts have escaped justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
9. August 2021.
Former Bosnian Serb officer Milomir Savcic, who is on trial for allegedly assisting the Srebrenica genocide, was remanded in custody for breaking a court order by speaking publicly about new legislation banning genocide denial.
9. August 2021.
A match in the ethnic Bosniak-majority city of Novi Pazar was temporarily halted because visiting fans of Belgrade club Partizan were chanting slogans celebrating the Srebrenica massacres and Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.