20. October 2022.
Police arrested an ethnic Bosniak, alleged to be a former policeman, who is suspected of taking part in a massacre in the Istog/Istok municipality during the Kosovo war in which 18 people were killed.
War crimes
20. October 2022.
Ratko Djurkovic, wartime commander of the First Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army’s First Majevica Brigade, was acquitted of failing to prevent six killings in a village near Teocak in 1992.
18. October 2022.
Former Bosnian Army soldier Senad Salkic was convicted of raping three women during the conflict with the separatist forces of the self-proclaimed Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia in the Velika Kladusa municipality.
18. October 2022.
Black paint was thrown over a controversial mural of World War II-era Serb nationalist Chetnik leader Dragoljub ‘Draza’ Mihailovic in the eastern Bosnian town of Foca.
13. October 2022.
More than 15,000 people have signed a petition to stop premieres in European cities of Boris Malagurski’s controversial documentary film about the Bosnian Serbs, claiming that it distorts the facts about the Srebrenica genocide.
13. October 2022.
An exhibition of photographic portraits of Bosnians who were born as a result the 1992-95 war and their mothers went on display in the Serbian capital.
12. October 2022.
Almost three decades after the last prisoners left the notorious Dretelj detention camp, several Bosnian Croat military policemen and security officers named in a Hague Tribunal verdict who could be suspects in the abuse and deaths of inmates have never been charged.
7. October 2022.
Bosnian Serb Army ex-soldier Mile Stojanovic is charged with participating in the illegal detention of around 150 Bosniak civilians, two of whom died, in the Rajlovac area, near Sarajevo, in 1992.
7. October 2022.
In early January this year in the settlement of Janja, near Bijeljina, post-war returnees were disturbed by gunfire near the mosque. This was just one of more than 100 incidents and statements we have registered during our year-long mapping of the spreading of hatred during election year. From October last year to this year’s elections, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina has closely monitored every incident and statement that could be associated with the spreading of hatred, but also denials of war crimes. In this edition of the programme, we’ll be talking to people from Bijeljina, Konjic and Sarajevo about how hatred affects them and what they are doing to confront it.
5. October 2022.
Husein Cejvanovic, who was a fighter for the separatist Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, is accused of killing one Bosnian Army prisoner of war and assaulting two others in the Velika Kladusa area in 1995.
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