15. July 2022.
The dehumanizing political discourse in Bosnia increases the fear of a potential repetition of the crimes of the 1990s, the UN General Secretary’s special advisor on the prevention of genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, tells BIRN.
War crimes
15. July 2022.
The trial of five former members of the Military Police of the Bosnian Serb Army, VRS, for crimes committed in the Rogatica in 1995, began with reading of the indictment.
14. July 2022.
Accepting that genocide was committed against Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 is necessary if there is to be meaningful post-war reconciliation, the new head of the UN court in The Hague, Graciela Gatti Santana, tells BIRN.
14. July 2022.
The acquittal of ex-fighters Edhem Godinjak, Medaris Saric and Mirko Bunoza, who were cleared of the wartime killings and inhumane treatment of imprisoned Bosnian Serb civilians and soldiers in Trnovo near Sarajevo, was upheld on appeal.
13. July 2022.
Ivica Husnik, a paramilitary convicted of participating in the killings of some 200 Croatian prisoners after the town of Vukovar fell in 1991, was extradited from Serbia to Croatia to serve a prison sentence for another crime.
12. July 2022.
With only eight hearings held since the beginning of 2020 – and none in 2022 – the trial of seven former Bosnian Serb special policeman accused of taking part in the executions of 1,300 Bosniaks has again been delayed.
12. July 2022.
Ten defendants including Ejup Ganic, a member of Bosnia’s wartime presidency, pleaded not guilty to involvement in the killings of retreating Yugoslav People’s Army soldiers in Sarajevo in 1992.
11. July 2022.
As the July 1995 massacre by Bosnian Serb forces was marked at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, international officials condemned continuing genocide denial and glorification of war criminals.
11. July 2022.
Thousands of Bosniak men walked 100 kilometres across harsh terrain to escape being massacred by Bosnian Serb forces after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995 - but there were also women and children fleeing with them, suffering the same terrors.
8. July 2022.
Bosnian war victims’ associations say high number of dropped investigations, almost 40 per cent of the total, is a cause for concern – and their names should be published.
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