7. April 2022.
As the 30th anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo is commemorated, a new book showcases posters from the 1992-95 Bosnian war, explaining how graphic design was used for resistance, propaganda and appeals for peace.
War crimes
6. April 2022.
BIRN's new database of adjudicated facts on the 1992-5 war in Bosnia is designed as an educational tool that will also counter revisionist narratives and genocide denial.
6. April 2022.
Marking the 30th anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo, a new BIRN online project features the video testimonials of 44 people - one for each month of the military blockade - recalling wartime hardships, atrocities and brief moments of joy.
6. April 2022.
For families still searching for loved ones who went missing in wartime Sarajevo, the 30th anniversary of the start of the siege of the capital is a painful reminder that three decades of hope and anguish have passed.
5. April 2022.
Paul Lowe’s exhibition of photographs of everyday life during the siege of Sarajevo shows how people in the Bosnian capital dealt with the everyday dangers and deprivations of war with courage and creativity.
5. April 2022.
As the 30-year anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo is commemorated, journalists who covered the outbreak of the war in April 1992 tell BIRN Bosnia’s ‘TV Justice’ programme how hate speech and militaristic propaganda fueled the conflict.
5. April 2022.
When the first barricades went up in Sarajevo amid a dispute over Bosnia’s independence referendum, few thought war would start – but by April 1992, the 44-month siege of the city was underway, recalls Marcus Tanner, who witnessed the escalating conflict.
4. April 2022.
Nikola Koprivica, who is suspected of committing a crime against humanity in the village of Novoseoci, where over 40 Bosniaks were executed in 1992, was extradited from Canada to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
4. April 2022.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Andjelko Pusonja was cleared of killing a two-year-old child and injuring an adult civilian in the Han Pijesak area during the war in 1992.
4. April 2022.
Brutal attacks by warlord Arkan’s Serb paramilitaries on unarmed civilians living in the city of Bijeljina, captured in photographs that shocked the world, signalled the start of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina 30 years ago.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.