Tuesday, 1 july 2025.
Collective Trauma: A Bosnian Author’s Diagnosis of Society
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...
Bosnia Finds More Wartime Missing Persons in 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...
Bosnia Prosecution Indicts Two for War Crimes in Gorazde Area
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.
BIRN Launches ‘Mapping Hate’ Database in Bosnia
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.
Bosnia Prosecution Maintains Trend of Accusing Previously Convicted Persons
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.
Hope Fades for Missing Victims of Albania’s Communist Regime
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.
Bosnia: Serb Leaders Intensify Political Crisis After Genocide Denial Ban
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,...
Bosnian Serb War Criminal Gets Ten-Month Sentence Reduction
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...
Bosnia Charges Ex-Police Officer with Crime Against Humanity
Zdravko Samardzija, a former co-commander of a special police unit, is accused of involvement in the persecution, unlawful detention and killing of Bosniak and Croat civilians in the Kotor Varos...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Tried for Killings of Bosniak, Croat Civilians
The trial opened of former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Dusan Culibrk, who is accused of involvement in the killings of more than 50 Bosniaks and Croats in the Bosanska Krupa...