Snowfall and children playing football beneath a window remind the parents of Alipasno Polje of the children they lost in an attack on their neighbourhood on January 22, 1994. They...
If witnesses at war crimes trials or their family members are at risk, they can be accepted into a programme of protection, which allows them to change their identity, move...
Verdicts in the high-profile war crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic and Goran Hadzic are due this year, while the controversy over the release of Vojislav Seselj looks set to continue.
Two detainees tortured at the Sljivovica wartime detention camp in Serbia have not received the compensation awarded to them because Belgrades public attorneys office has demanded the case be reviewed.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) of Bosnia and Herzegovina successfully ended its ninth year of work with 2014 being marked by the practice of anonymisation being abolished for first...
Recent decisions by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to close war crimes trials to the public in order to protect the private life of the indictees, has faced strong...
After months spent in custody and years spent on trial, some indictees were however pronounced not guilty of war crimes. They are trying to live a normal life again, but...
Legal experts and judicial officials have criticised the state prosecution for raising indictments for individual war crimes, reducing complex and wide-ranging attacks to a series of more minor incidents.
The murder and rape of pregnant women by fighters during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina remains one of the least-researched aspects of wartime brutality.
