Tuesday, 1 april 2025.
Jailed Bosnian Serb Wartime Minister Asks Hague Tribunal for Early Release
Former Bosnian Serb interior minister Mico Stanisic, sentenced to 22 years in prison by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, has submitted a request for early release from...
BIRN Holds Conference on Future of Transitional Justice
Speakers in Sarajevo say vital opportunity to put subject back into public discourse created by EU accession talks must not be lost.
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...
Justice Denied: How Warden of Infamous Bosnian Croat Camp Escaped Prosecution
Former inmates of the notorious Heliodrom camp still ask why warden Stanko Bozic – and others who allowed prisoners to be beaten and taken from the camp for forced labour...
Local Wartime Security Chief Acquitted of Rape Charges in Bosnia
Bosnia's state court ruled that Andrija Bjelosevic was not guilty of the multiple rape of a Bosniak woman in Derventa during the 1990s war, questioning the reliability of her testimony.
Ukrainian Survivors of Sexual Violence in Russian Captivity Turn Trauma into Motivation
Two Ukrainians who were held prisoner by Russia are using the pain they endured to motivate them to help other survivors of wartime sexual violence. They are also asking the...
Without a Trace: The Bosnian War Victims Who May Never be Identified
When entire families were killed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, almost all hope of ever identifying them died too.
Montenegro Court Cancels Detention of War Crime Defendant
The Podgorica court said it has ended the detention of Slobodan Pekovic, accused of wartime murder and rape in Bosnia, because three years have passed since the indictment was issued...
Episode 166: Everything was Destroyed – Remembering the Day a Bosnian Village Burned
This month marks the 31st anniversary of one of the largest mass crimes against civilians in the village of Stupni Do, near Vares. Former senior officials of Herzeg-Bosnia and the...
Bosnian War Survivors Launch Genocide Denial Monitoring Website
The Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide has launched a new website designed to monitor and record all forms of genocide and war crimes denial in Bosnia and Herzegovina.