Sunday, 22 june 2025.
Bosnia Prison Camp Ex-Guards Face Trial for Torture, Killings
Bosnia’s state court confirmed the indictment of five former guards at the Trnopolje, Keraterm and Omarska wartime detention camps on charges that include torture, murder and allowing the rape of...
My Missing Husband: How Bosnia’s War Devastated an Albanian Family
At the start of the Bosnian war, Albanians’ shops were attacked in the city of Doboj and Fadila Huduti’s husband was seized by Serb forces. When she read that a...
Bosnian Serb Wartime Policeman Tells Court of Prisoner Executions
At the start of his trial in Belgrade for the killing of 51 non-Serbs in 1992, former reservist policeman Milorad Kotur explained how prisoners were taken from the Omarska detention...
Serbia Again Convicts Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier of Wartime Rape
In a retrial for wartime rape of a Bosniak woman who was held prisoner at a school in Kalinovik in south-eastern Bosnia, in 1992, a Belgrade court sentenced Dalibor Krstovic...
Serbia Cuts Bosnian Army Jail Chief’s Prisoner Abuse Sentence
Husein Mujanovic’s sentence for abusing Serb civilian prisoners held in inhumane conditions in a Bosnian Army military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo in 1992 was reduced to four-and-a-half years on...
Batons and Blood: The Bosnian Music School That Became a Brutal Jail
Thirty years have passed since Bosnian Army troops detained and assaulted Croat and Serb prisoners in a music school basement in Zenica. In the Hague Tribunal archives, BIRN found names...
Serb Paramilitary Killers Must Face Justice, Bosnian Widow Pleads
Ahead of the appeal in the Hague court’s trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, the widow of a man killed by Serb fighters operating...
Bosnia Convicts Serb Ex-Soldier of Killing Civilian Prisoner
Ex-soldier Milenko Macanovic was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for killing one civilian and treating another inhumanely in Kljuc during the war in June 1992.
Bosnia Confirms Ex-Policeman’s 20-Year Sentence for Killing Civilians
The Bosnian state court upheld the verdict convicting former reservist policeman Dusan Culibrk of involvement in the wartime killings of more than 50 Bosniaks and Croats in the Bosanska Krupa...
Serbia Agrees to Prosecute Suspects in Two Bosnian War Cases
The Serbian judiciary has taken over the prosecution of Milorad Kotur, who is accused of involvement in killing over 50 Bosniaks and Croats, and Lazar Mutlak, who is charged with...