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Bosnia Charges Ten with War Crimes Against Serb Prisoners
Ten former Bosnian Army officers and soldiers have been charged with committing crimes against Serb civilians and prisoners of war who were held in camps and detention facilities in the...
Interview: Inna Pedan – Why I Have to Speak About the War in Ukraine Through Art
Although going to Paris meant escaping the everyday life of wartime, Inna Pedan, a Ukrainian artist, art designer and professor at the Kharkov State Academy of Design and Art, began...
Lessons From Bosnia Can Inform Ukraine’s Search for a ‘Just Peace’
Mikhail Savchenko witnessed war crimes three decades ago in Bosnia, and again in his native Ukraine. In seeking justice for Russian forces’ violations, rights experts say Ukraine must avoid Bosnia’s...
Serb War Criminal’s Genocide Confession Falls on Deaf Ears Among Ethnic Kin
Radislav Krstic’s confession and request for forgiveness for the 1995 Srebrenica massacres was largely ignored in Serbia and among Bosnian Serbs, where genocide denial remains rife.
Montenegro’s ‘Weekend Warriors’ Rarely Prosecuted for 1990s War Crimes
‘Weekend warriors’ were volunteer fighters who popped in and out of war zones in the 1990s. Many came from Montenegro, but few have ever faced justice for the war crimes...
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.