Monday, 5 may 2025.
Croatia Upholds Soldier’s Conviction for Killing Serb Family in 1995
The Supreme Court upheld a verdict sentencing a former Croatian soldier to ten years in prison for killing three Serb civilians, all members of the same family, after the Croatian...
Bosnian War Crimes Denial Ban Causes Trial Postponement
A hearing in a war crimes trial was postponed over confusion caused by changes to the criminal code imposed by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s international overseer to ban the denial of...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighters’ Wartime Rape Sentences Reduced
The Bosnian court reduced by one year the sentences handed down to Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic for raping a Bosniak woman near Foca in 1992, jailing them for seven...
Bosnian Genocide Denial Ban Pleases Survivors, Angers Serbs
Survivors of the Srebrenica massacres welcomed the decision by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s international overseer to impose legislation to ban the denial of genocide and war crimes, but some Bosnian Serbs...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Pleads Not Guilty to War Crimes
Former Bosnian Serb Army company commander Rade Macura pleaded not guilty to failing to punish subordinates who abused and shot civilian prisoners in the Gradiska area in 1992.
Bosnia’s High Representative Imposes Genocide Denial Ban
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official, High Representative Valentin Inzko, used his power to impose amendments to the country’s criminal code to ban the denial of genocide and the glorification...
The Cruelty of Srebrenica Shocked Us, Forensic Investigator Recalls
Robert McNeil was one of the first international experts deployed to gather evidence by examining the bodies of victims of the Srebrenica massacres, and memories of what he saw have...
Belgrade Court Cuts Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier’s War Crime Sentence
The Appeals Court in Belgrade reduced the sentence convicting former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Radomir Kezunovic of war crimes from 14 years to five years.
Croatia Charges Bosnian Croat Ex-Fighter with War Crimes
Croatian police arrested a former Bosnian Croat fighter and charged him with committing war crimes against two civilians in the north-eastern Bosnian town of Orasje in 1992.
Bosnian Serb Report Claims Many Srebrenica Victims Weren’t Civilians
A report by a commission funded by the government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity claims that thousands of Bosniaks from Srebrenica who were killed in July 1995 were active...