Monday, 31 march 2025.
Syria Looks to Bosnia’s Experience to Deal with War’s Mass Graves
With 150,000 people listed as missing from Syria’s brutal civil conflict, the new authorities are looking to learn from the International Committee on Missing Persons’ success in locating mass graves...
Episode 170: Parents struggling to find children who disappeared in wartime want their memory to be preserved
In this programme, we talk to parents who have been searching for three decades for their children who went missing in the war - about their traumas and memories, but...
In Bosnia’s Grapska, Villagers Continue Long Search for Missing War Victims
For over three decades, villagers in Grapska near Doboj have been searching for the remains of more than 30 people who were killed during the 1990s war, including two minors...
Without a Trace: The Bosnian War Victims Who May Never be Identified
When entire families were killed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, almost all hope of ever identifying them died too.
Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Convicted of Forced Disappearances
The Bosnian state court convicted wartime Bosnian Serb Army soldier Zoran Ilic of the forced disappearances of 16 Bosniak civilians who were seized by troops near Rogatica in June 1992.
Srebrenica Memorial Centre Houses Unidentified Genocide Victims’ Remains
A facility was opened at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre to store the remains, personal belongings and clothes of victims of the Srebrenica genocide who haven’t been identified – intended as...
As Search for Bosnian War’s Missing Children Goes On, Parents Keep Hoping
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...
Bosnia Train Massacre Victims’ Families Lament ‘Lack of Justice’
On the 31st anniversary of the abduction and execution of 20 non-Serb passengers seized from a train in Strpci in Bosnia during wartime, victims’ relatives expressed discontent about alleged perpetrators’...
Bosnia’s Former Security Minister Charged with War Crimes
Former Security Minister Selmo Cikotic, who was a Bosnian Army officer during the war, was charged with failing to prevent the torture and murders of Croat military prisoners in Bugojno...
Unidentifiable Genocide Victims’ Remains to be Laid to Rest in Srebrenica
Some of the remains of people killed in the July 1995 genocide haven’t been unidentified and remain in storage. A new repository is being built at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre...