5. January 2022.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is failing to address the problem of schools that are named after controversial wartime figures or battles, promoting ethnic exclusivity and entrenching divisions, says a new OSCE report.
War crimes
4. January 2022.
Milenko Zivanovic, a former general and commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, was charged with directing armed units that attacked Bosniak civilians in the Srebrenica and Zepa areas in 1995.
4. January 2022.
Novelist Lejla Kalamujic, whose writing has been shaped by her experience of siege and exile in the violent 1990s, says that the trauma suffered by Bosnian society during the war years still needs to be properly addressed.
31. December 2021.
The remains of 80 missing persons from the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been found this year - an increase on last year, when searches were slowed down by the coronavirus pandemic.
30. December 2021.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has filed an indictment against Branislav Lasica and Miroslav Milovic for crimes in the village of Lozje, near Gorazde, in 1992.
30. December 2021.
BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina's new database, Mapping Hate, documents hate speech, discriminatory rhetoric, the incitement of hatred and the denial of genocide and other war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
30. December 2021.
State Prosecution filed 15 war crime indictments against 39 persons this year, less than in 2020, including four persons who were previously convicted by the Hague Tribunal and State Court.
24. December 2021.
The Albanian authorities’ efforts to locate the graves of thousands people killed by the country’s former Communist dictatorship have stalled, causing disillusionment and anger among the families of the disappeared.
24. December 2021.
Legal changes banning the denial of genocide, imposed by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official, caused the Bosnian Serb leadership to threaten to pull out of the country’s tax system, judiciary and army.
23. December 2021.
The UN court in The Hague granted a ten-month sentence reduction to the wartime political leader of Bosnia’s Prijedor municipality, Milomir Stakic, who was convicted of the persecution and extermination of Bosniaks and Croats.
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