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BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina is launching a campaign entitled ‘Forgotten Victims’, aimed at highlighting the victims of war crimes for which no one has yet been convicted under final verdicts. BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday begins its ‘Forgotten Victims’ campaign, which intends to enable victims of unprosecuted war crimes and their families to speak […]

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 victims from the dominant ethnic group in each area.

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 victims from the dominant ethnic group in each area.

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 its own version of the truth about the war.

BIRN has published an updated and improved version of its War Crimes Verdicts Map, an interactive tool that offers an overview of hundreds of court rulings on the crimes committed during the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network on Wednesday published its updated and improved War Crimes Verdicts Map, enabling […]

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 Protection Agency, SIPA police officers on Monday arrested ex-serviceman Sabahudin Kajdic, alias Sasa, for allegedly committing a crime against humanity in July 1992.

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 of Rizvanovici.

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.

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 learning the fate of their loved ones.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina signed agreements with Croatia and Serbia aimed at improving cross-border cooperation in the search for the remaining 12,000 missing persons from the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

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BIRN BiH Launches ‘Forgotten Victims’ Campaign

Bosnia Spends €2 Million on ‘Divisive’ War Memorials

Episode 109: Bosnia Spends €2 Million on ‘Divisive’ War Memorials

Radovan Karadzic’s Conviction Highlights Entrenched Divisions

BIRN Launches Updated Map of Balkan War Crime Verdicts

Bosnia Arrests Ex-Soldier for Abducting, Killing Bosniaks

Skulls Found in Bosnian War Grave Exhumation

Bosnia Publishes Database of 27,000 Wartime Missing Persons

Passing Time Makes Search for Bosnia’s Wartime Missing Harder

Bosnia Signs Missing Persons Search Agreements with Croatia, Serbia

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