The prosecution appealed against the verdict acquitting Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of a Bosnian interior ministry police unit in besieged Sarajevo, of involvement in the killing of eight Yugoslav...

The former BBC correspondent Martin Bell tells BIRN that the ‘information war’ for media coverage and international attention is as important in Ukraine now as it was when he covered...

Boro Tomic is being held in temporary custody after being detained at the Bosnian-Serbian border on an arrest warrant issued by Croatia, which accuses him of committing war crimes in...

The Bosnian state court confirmed former Bosnian Army military policeman Adem Kostjerevac’s seven-year prison sentence for raping a pregnant woman in the Zvornik municipality during the war in 1992.

Marking its 25th anniversary, the Memorial Fund presented BIRN BiH with a certificate of appreciation for its contribution toward raising awareness about the importance of the culture of memory.

Important files, photographs and witness records that illuminate the history of the Kosovo war are being kept separately by human rights groups, amateur archivists and the State Archives, as the...

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic will award the honorary rank of brigadier-general to former Croatian Defence Council commander Djuro Matuzovic, who is currently being tried in Bosnia for war crimes.

Predrag Kujundzic, the wartime commander of the Predini Vukovi (Predo’s Wolves) unit, who was serving a 17-year sentence for the persecution, rape and unlawful detention of civilians, died in hospital...

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,...

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.