Thursday, 18 september 2025.
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...
Viši sud u Beogradu. Foto: Detektor
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...
Bosnia Issues 172 War Crimes Arrest Warrants as Fugitives Dodge Justice
Courts across the country have issued at least 172 warrants for the arrests of war crimes suspects, indictees and convicts who can’t be brought to justice because they are no...
Bosnia Upholds Verdict Clearing Wartime Fighter of Assaulting Boy
The state court upheld the verdict clearing Territorial Defence force ex-fighter Agan Ramic of committing a crime against humanity by hitting a minor in a village in the Konjic area...
Bosnian Serb Detention Camp Guards Charged with Prisoner Abuse
The Bosnian prosecution charged 15 former guards with crimes against civilians and prisoners of war who were detained at the Military-Investigative Prison in Banja Luka, known as Mali Logor, from...
Bosnian Croat Ex-Fighter Charged with Murdering Father and Son
The Bosnian prosecution charged former Croatian Defence Council fighter Robert Bresic with involvement in seizing and killing two Serb civilians, a father and son, in Maglaj during the war in...
Bosnia Charges Ex-Guards with Detention Camp Crimes in Prijedor
Six former guards were charged with committing a crime against humanity against illegally-detained prisoners at the Trnopolje, Keraterm and Omarska camps in the Prijedor area during wartime.