Weeks after parliament in Montenegro passed a similar resolution, Kosovo's parliament has adopted its own resolution condemning denial of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide committed by Bosnian Serb forces.
Bosnian and Serbian companies provided heavy machinery, buses and trucks that were used during the Srebrenica deportations and massacres in July 1995 and the subsequent cover-up operation, but none of them has ever been held accountable.
Midhat Poturovic’s exhibition ‘Soul of Srebrenica’ opened on Saturday at the EndzioHub gallery in central Belgrade, unaffected by a small demonstration outside by supporters of jailed Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic.
The annual commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide will see the burials of 19 more victims identified over the past year, the youngest of whom was 16 when he was killed.
BIRN has identified at least 20 Twitter accounts that actively dispute the international court classification of the 1995 Srebrenica massacres as genocide. Their denial of the crime frequently goes unchallenged.
Boris Bosnjak, Miodrag Grubacic and Ilija Djajic, who were convicted of mistreating and abusing Bosniak and Croat civilian detainees held at a military barracks in Bileca in 1992, had their sentences reduced on appeal.
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Bozidar Perisic was sentenced to ten years in prison for killing two Bosniak men in a village near Rogatica during the war in 1992.
War survivors in Bosanski Samac still remember the brutality of Serbian State Security fighters deployed to their town in 1992, where they committed crimes that eventually led to landmark convictions this week for the security service’s top officials.
As the UN court prepares to rule on whether the Serbian State Security Service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic illegally controlled wartime paramilitary units, BIRN looks at how they were deployed in the Croatian and Bosnian conflicts.
The wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Sana Brigade, Branko Basara, is accused of attacking, forcibly relocating and murdering civilians in the Sanski Most area of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.