War crimes Archives

Under the new educational curriculum in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity, elementary school students will be taught about the achievements of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic – but not about their war crimes convictions.

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for a third time rejected the early release request of the wartime leader of a Bosnian Serb Army reconnaissance unit who was sentenced to 28 years in prison for multiple rapes and enslavement in Foca.

A commission set up to recompense relatives of certain Srebrenica genocide victims because Dutch peacekeeping troops failed to protect them has paid out millions of euros in compensation for 611 of the victims’ deaths.

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Ibro Zahirovic filmed life in the besieged enclave during the Bosnian war and captured the last moments before it fell in July 1995 – escaping with videos that were later used as evidence at the Hague Tribunal.

Victims of the Srebrenica genocide have been found in more than 80 mass graves, most of which have not been marked and are hard to find. BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina documented the start of an initiative by victims’ families to mark some of these graves for the first time in the manner envisaged in the country’s Law on Missing Persons, which has already been in force for 20 years.

The Bosnian state court confirmed the verdict sentencing ten former soldiers to a total of 162 years in prison for participating in the mass execution of 24 Bosniak civilians in the Bosanski Novi area in June 1992.

The Bosnian state court convicted wartime Bosnian Serb Army soldier Zoran Ilic of the forced disappearances of 16 Bosniak civilians who were seized by troops near Rogatica in June 1992.

Bosnia’s state court has confirmed its first-instance verdict and cleared Bosnian Serb Army company commander Rade Macura of involvement in war crimes in a village in the Bosanska Gradiska area in 1992.

The UN war crimes court rejected a request from former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic to grant him provisional release on humanitarian grounds or allow him to continue to serve his life sentence in Serbia.

A facility was opened at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre to store the remains, personal belongings and clothes of victims of the Srebrenica genocide who haven’t been identified – intended as a place of dignified remembrance.

War crimes

Bosnian Serb Schoolchildren to be Taught Mladic, Karadzic Were ‘Heroes’

UN Court Again Rejects Bosnian Serb Commander’s Plea for Release

Netherlands Pays Compensation for Hundreds of Srebrenica Victims

Filming Horror: How Videographer Captured Srebrenica’s Last Moments Before Genocide

Episode 163: Families of Srebrenica genocide victims call for mass graves to be marked

Bosnia Upholds Serb Ex-Soldiers’ Sentences for Executing Bosniak Villagers

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Convicted of Forced Disappearances

Bosnia Clears Serb Ex-Commander of War Crimes Against Civilians

Hague Court Rejects Ratko Mladic’s Plea for Provisional Release

Srebrenica Memorial Centre Houses Unidentified Genocide Victims’ Remains

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