15. November 2024.
Speakers in Sarajevo say vital opportunity to put subject back into public discourse created by EU accession talks must not be lost.
War crimes
12. November 2024.
Former inmates of the notorious Heliodrom camp still ask why warden Stanko Bozic – and others who allowed prisoners to be beaten and taken from the camp for forced labour – never faced court.
11. November 2024.
Bosnia's state court ruled that Andrija Bjelosevic was not guilty of the multiple rape of a Bosniak woman in Derventa during the 1990s war, questioning the reliability of her testimony.
11. November 2024.
Two Ukrainians who were held prisoner by Russia are using the pain they endured to motivate them to help other survivors of wartime sexual violence. They are also asking the Ukrainian authorities to make sexual violence in conflict a legal offence and recognise the legal status of survivors.
4. November 2024.
When entire families were killed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, almost all hope of ever identifying them died too.
10. October 2024.
This month marks the 31st anniversary of one of the largest mass crimes
against civilians in the village of Stupni Do, near Vares. Former senior officials of [unrecognised wartime statelet] Herzeg-Bosnia and the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, were prosecuted in The Hague for the crime, but only three former HVO members were convicted in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1. October 2024.
The Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide has launched a new website designed to monitor and record all forms of genocide and war crimes denial in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
26. September 2024.
Five wartime Bosnian Serb fighters were sentenced to a total of 59 years in prison for involvement in an attack that left several civilians dead in the village of Zecovi near Prijedor in July 1992.
13. September 2024.
Most survivors of sexual abuse during the Kosovo war still suffer severe psychological consequences as a result of their ordeal, a new report by two NGOs, Medica Mondiale and Medica Gjakova, concludes.
13. September 2024.
Prosecutors accuse Serif Patkovic, a wartime Bosnian Army battalion commander, of shooting a wounded Bosnian Croat prisoner dead in the village of Dusina in 1993.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.