War crimes Archives

In this April edition of TV Justice, we’re bringing you a story about how Bosnia and Herzegovina is once again going to disappoint war victims’ families who have been waiting for nearly three decades to see those responsible for crimes against them or their loved ones identified and punished.

Participants agree transitional judice is a priority for the EU and feelings of ‘fatigue’ must not get in the way.

The bodies of 373 children who went missing during the Bosnian war have yet to be found. But despite a lack of new information about grave sites and dwindling numbers of surviving witnesses, their parents haven't stopped waiting for news.

By testifying about beatings and sexual abuse suffered in Russian captivity, a woman from eastern Ukraine aims to inspire others to testify in order to document as many crimes as possible for ongoing and future trials. Comparing the experiences of suffering and trauma with those in Bosnia and Herzegovina, some Ukrainian activists fear that high-ranking Russian officials who gave orders will never be prosecuted.

Former inmates of a Bosnian Croat-run Heliodrom detention camp near Mostar marked the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the dissolution of the facility by paying tribute to prisoners who were killed and sending out a message of peace.

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Six former members of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade denied capturing and forcibly detaining more than 800 Bosniak men and boys during the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.

Appeal judges at the Bosnian state court upheld the verdict convicting five former policemen of torturing Bosniak civilian detainees in the north-eastern town of Janja from 1992 to 1994.

Milomir Djuricic and Vukadin Spasojevic were found guilty of crimes including allowing Bosnian Serb fighters to assault prisoners and forcing inmates to have sex at the Uzamnica detention camp in Visegrad in 1992 and 1993.

Bosnian Serb Army ex-soldier Milenko Macanovic was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for war crimes for killing a Bosniak civilian prisoner who was detained at a school in Kljuc in 1992 and injuring another.

Seven former Bosnian Army soldiers and military policemen were sentenced to a total of 36 years of prison for crimes against civilian detainees and prisoners of war held at a hotel in the town of Buzim in 1994-95.

War crimes

Do Bosnian War Crime Victims Face Judicial Disappointment Again in Two Years’ Time?

Transitional Justice Vital for Bosnia’s EU Path, Conference Says

As Search for Bosnian War’s Missing Children Goes On, Parents Keep Hoping

Ukrainian Woman Testifies About Sexual Abuse to Help Document Russian Crimes

Ex-Inmates Mark Bosnian Prison Camp Anniversary with Peace Message

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldiers Plead Not Guilty to Aiding Genocide

Five Bosnian Serb Ex-Policemen Jailed for Torturing Civilians

Bosnian Serb Detention Camp Officers Convicted of Prisoner Abuse

Bosnia Convicts Serb Ex-Soldier of Killing Prisoner at School

Seven Bosnian Army Ex-Troops Convicted of Wartime Prisoner Abuse

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