Wednesday, 24 december 2025.
BIRN Launches ‘If You Were Here’ Missing Persons Campaign
BIRN has launched a new campaign entitled If You Were Here, which will tell the stories of family members of missing persons from the Balkan wars who are still waiting...
Bosnia Spends €2 Million on ‘Divisive’ War Memorials
Over the past four years, more than two million euros have been dedicated to building memorials honouring military and civilian casualties of the Bosnian war - but most only commemorate...
Radovan Karadzic’s Conviction Highlights Entrenched Divisions
Bosniaks applauded the life sentence handed down in 2019 to Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, but Serb politicians condemned it and analysts warned that each ethnic group still has...
Bosnia Arrests Ex-Soldier for Abducting, Killing Bosniaks
Bosnia’s State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Sabahudin Kajdic for seizing and killing Bosniak civilians in the Prijedor area in July 1992. State Investigation and...
Skulls Found in Bosnian War Grave Exhumation
Investigators have found two skulls during an exhumation in Bosnia’s Prijedor area of a suspected wartime grave that is believed to contain the remains of Bosniaks killed in the village...
Bosnia Publishes Database of 27,000 Wartime Missing Persons
The database of around 27,000 verified names of people who went missing in the 1992-95 war is being published to coincide with the International Day of the Disappeared.
Passing Time Makes Search for Bosnia’s Wartime Missing Harder
Fewer of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s wartime missing persons are being found because witnesses who know about undiscovered mass graves are still unwilling to come forward and relatives are dying without...