Serb nationalist and pro-Moscow groups from Bosnia, Serbia and Russia celebrated the controversial Day of Republika Srpska this week with fireworks, militaristic warnings and slogans glorifying war criminals.
The MC Serbs motorcycle club from Serbia, whose members wear Nazi-style death’s head insignias and some have tattoos of a stylised swastika, has officially registered an association to operate in the city of Doboj in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Detektor has learned.
Under the guise of patriotism, at least 19 shops and online stores in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are selling clothes glorifying war criminals like Ratko Mladic and promoting far-right ideas, a BIRN investigation reveals.
The Bosnian court upheld the five-month prison sentences handed down to three members of a Serb nationalist Chetnik organisation who were convicted of inciting hatred at a rally in the town of Visegrad in 2019.
One December Sunday, dozens of darkly dressed Serbian far-rightists answered a rallying call to head to Kosovo and show support for Serbs there, who had barricaded roads in the latest protest against the authorities in Pristina.
This month we’ll be talking about how retail outlets in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia profit from spreading hate and get away with selling clothes that glorify war criminals and far-right ideologies.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has published an interactive map providing detailed information about scores of far-right and extremist organisations in six countries in the Balkans.
Battlefield scenarios from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th Century are used in various board games and video games, but while some of them offer the opportunity to play with history, others distort the facts completely.