Sunday, 1 june 2025.
Peric et al: Active Persecution or ‘Doing Nothing Illegal’
Verdict on former police officers from Kalinovnik charged with knowingly persecuting local Bosniaks expected at the end of March.
HRW: International Presence Encouraged Public Faith
The involvement of international judges and prosecutors in the War Crimes Chamber of the Prosecution and Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has encouraged public faith in the impartiality of those...
Bosnia Under Pressure to Speed up Appeals Court
Brussels wants Bosnia to get a move on in establishing a state appeals court – but opinions in the country are divided on whether such a court is strictly necessary...
Serbs Resist Guilt For Markale Massacres
The powerful symbolism of the 1994 and 1995 market massacres explains why many Serbs are reluctant to accept court verdicts pinning responsibility for them on the Bosnian Serb army.
Dobrovoljacka Street: Unachievable Requirements from Republika Srpska
According to the analysts, boisterous and negative reactions from Republika Srpska (RS) regarding the decision on the suspension of the investigation against a number of suspects in the “Dobrovoljacka” case,...
BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina Expands in its Seventh Year
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) achieved outstanding results in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2011, continuing to provide information and analysis to the media, victims, and the general public on...
State Court Hands Down More than 400 Years for War Crimes
Over the past year, Bosnia's State Court sentenced 33 people for war crimes committed in different parts of the country during the 1992-95 war, handing down a total of 436...
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...
Genocide Denial Law Falls Victim to Bosnia’s Ethnic Divide
A law outlawing denial of war crimes or genocide is before Bosnia’s State Parliament. But with Muslims and Serbs at loggerheads over the idea, its chances of becoming law are...
Sarajevo Shuns Recognition of Bosniak War Crimes
Canton’s hostile reaction to arrests of men suspected of abducting, torturing and killing Serb and Croat civilians during the siege shows culture of denial embraces all sides in Bosnia.