Monday, 5 may 2025.
Bosnia’s Proposal to Prosecute Croatian Generals Sparks Controversy
Croatian officials reacted indignantly after state prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina reportedly asked Zagreb if its judiciary can prosecute Croatian wartime generals for crimes allegedly committed during the Croatian Army’s...
Football Fans Disrupt Match in Serbia with Srebrenica Chants
A match in the ethnic Bosniak-majority city of Novi Pazar was temporarily halted because visiting fans of Belgrade club Partizan were chanting slogans celebrating the Srebrenica massacres and Bosnian Serb...
Kosovo Hope Trials in Absentia Will Boost War Crimes Convictions
In the absence of legal cooperation with Serbia, Kosovo has changed its legislation to make it easier to try suspects in their absence - but sceptics say this doesn’t necessarily...
Serbian Municipal Honour for War Criminal Dismissed as ‘Political Game’
Serbian activists are unsurprised by a municipality's decison to award a former general sentenced to 14 years in prison for war crimes in Kosovo, calling it part of the ruling...
Tudjman’s ‘Freedom Train’: Celebrating Croats’ Victory and Serbs’ Exodus
After Croatia’s victory over rebel Serbs in Operation Storm in August 1995, President Franjo Tudjman set off on a triumphalist cross-country railway journey, staging celebratory rallies along the way -...
Croatian Serbs Commemorate Victims of 1995 Operation Storm
Serb representatives in Croatia and NGOs from both Croatia and Serbia have started a six-day commemoration for the victims of the 1995 army operation that reunited Croatia but also cost...
Christian Schmidt: Glorifying War Criminals is ‘Unacceptable’
At his first press conference, the new High Representative in Bosnia said there was no excuse for glorifying war criminals and he had not come to Bosnia to ’drink coffee’...
‘Nationalists Want to Convince Croats and Serbs They Can’t Coexist’
This week, while Croatia celebrates its victory in 1995’s Operation Storm and Serbia mourns the victims, nationalists on both sides will be seeking to profit politically from one of the...
Bosnian Croat Charged with War Crimes Dies in Croatia
Pero Vincetic, a former Bosnian Croat fighter charged with war crimes in the northeastern Bosnian town of Orasje in 1992, died on Sunday aged 53.
BIRN Fact-Check: Trial Evidence Contradicts Claims in Bosnian Serbs’ Srebrenica Report
A report by a Bosnian Serb-funded commission has claimed the Srebrenica massacres were not genocide and most victims were not civilians – but some of its controversial assertions are contradicted...