Sunday, 29 june 2025.
Defence Lawyers Complain of Unfair Treatment
Attorneys for war-crime indictees before local courts say they don’t get the same help that prosecutors do - and wait too long to get paid.
Dodik Threat To Arrest Bosnian War Criminals Condemned
Serb leader accused of unconstitutional bluster, for claiming Bosnian Serb entity has authority to arrest war criminals and extradite them to Serbia.
Deadline Fades to Rate Bosnia’s ‘Sensitive’ War Crimes
Over two years after national war crimes strategy obliged the State Court to classify all remaining cases as ‘sensitive’, or not, the task remains incomplete.
Hague Tribunal Successor ‘Casts Doubt on Region’s Courts’
UN decision to set up a follow-up body to the tribunal draws criticism in some quarters for showing lack of confidence in the region’s own courts.
Bosnian War’s Wicked Women Get Off Lightly
While war-crime victims recall women as carrying out some of the vilest deeds in the whole of the Bosnian war, the courts seem curiously relucant to act.
More than three hundred years of imprisonment
In its sixth year of operation, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Chamber for War Crimes sentenced 15 persons to a total of 156 years in prison, and acquitted seven,...
BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina: Six years of intensive work
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN B&H) has launched a series of new projects in 2010, by which it intensified the work on informing the public about the...
Deadlines Slip By For Bosnia War Crimes Strategy
Two years on, there is stll no central database for cases, trials are only inching forward and Brussels is getting increasingly impatient.
Decade of Silence on War Crimes in Posavina
Failure to prosecute anyone for war crimes in ten years blamed on fact that no one filed criminal charges. That has changed, but many victims feel it's too late now.
Wheels of Justice Grind Slowly in Doboj
More than 2,000 died in the Doboj area in the war but the courts are taking their time in bringing the guilty to justice.