Saturday, 12 april 2025.
War Crimes Are not a Priority in Bosnia
Chief Hague Tribunal Prosecutor Serge Brammertz says that prosecutors’ offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not sufficiently committed to solving numerous war-crimes investigations.
No Indictments Filed for Two Years
The District Court in Trebinje has not dealt with any new war-crimes cases during the past two years, because no indictments have been filed by the Prosecution in that period.
EU Allocates 15 Million for New Judges and Prosecutors
The European Unit has allocated 15.8 million euros for hiring judges, prosecutors and additional staff members in order to speed up the work on war-crimes cases. This was confirmed by...
Foster Co-operation for Faster Processing of War Crimes
The OSCE Mission organised a meeting between representatives of civil societies and associations of war crimes victims and representatives of judicial authorities of the Central Bosnia and Zenica-Doboj Canton in...
OSCE Helps Bosnia Accelerate War Crimes Prosecutions
The OSCE and Bosnia’s top judicial authority have launched a joint project aimed at speeding up work on war crimes cases by supporting support legal institutions.
Bosnia’s War Crimes Strategy May Finally Speed up
Three years since Bosnia adopted a war-crimes strategy, hopes grow that the prosecution of war crimes perpetrators may finally speed up, although no increase in indictments has yet occurred.
Bosnian Serbs Unhappy with War Crimes Strategy Implementation
Republika Srpska Prime Minister Aleksandar Dzombic said that he was not satisfied with the slow speed at which war crimes against Serbs were processed.
Bosnian Transitional Strategy Hangs on Political Support
Two years after it has been commissioned, Bosnia has a draft of the Transitional Justice Strategy, but despite widespread acceptance of its importance there are already doubts whether the document...
War Crimes Processing Strategy Faces ‘Bottleneck’
Although the deadlines laid out in the Strategy for the Processing of War Crimes Cases are fast approaching and international observers have expressed concern, the Supervisory Board for the implementation...
Interview – Milorad Novkovic: Work on War Crimes cases is the Priority
While pointing out that the Strategy for processing war crimes cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not going as planned, Milorad Novkovic, President of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council...