Saturday, 8 november 2025.
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...
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.