Friday, 11 april 2025.
Activists Place Memorial Plaques at Bosnian ‘Sites of Suffering’
Peace activists have installed plaques at sites where people were killed or imprisoned during the 1992-95 Bosnian war in the Zenica, Doboj and Zepce areas.
Families of Missing from Bosnian War Plead for Action
Families of 80 people who disappeared in the Brod area during the Bosnian war want more to be done to find their relatives, but officials say they need more information...
Bone Fragments Found in Exhumation at Sarajevo Hospital
An exhumation in the grounds of a major hospital in the Bosnian capital unearthed fragments of bones, shoes and a wristwatch that are believed to have belonged to a victim...
Kosovo Massacre Anniversary Brings Memories of a Missing Mother
Ahead of the anniversary of the killings of 45 Kosovo Albanians in Recak/Racak in 1999 - a massacre that helped motivate NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia - the son of a...
Pandemic Slows Search for Bosnian War Missing
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed the work of Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute in 2020 and halted it completely for two months, leading to a drop in the number of victims found...
Kosovo Finds 11 War Victims in Hidden Graves in 2020
The head of Kosovo’s Missing Persons Commission told BIRN that 11 war victims’ remains were exhumed this year, but many more remain to be found at hidden grave sites in...
Final Verdict in Ratko Mladic’s Trial Set for May 2021
The head of the UN court said the final verdict in the trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, who is appealing against his conviction for genocide and...
Serbian Mine Gives up Dark Secret of Kosovo War
Exhumation began last month at a fifth mass grave found in Serbia and believed to contain the remains of ethnic Albanians killed in the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
Serbia Pledges to Exhume Suspected Kosovar Mass Grave Soon
An expert commission formed by a court in Serbia is to determine the exact starting date for the exhumation of a suspected mass grave in southern Serbia – which is...
Croatia to Finally Give Welfare Benefits to Civilian War Victims
Croatia aims to pass legislation that will grant benefits to civilian victims of the 1991-95 war - but experts warn that the draft law in its current form could omit...